191 Pelagius, the friend of Timasius and Jacobus.

192 Job xl. 4, and xlii. 6.

193 Ps. cxix. 21, or 118.

194 1 John i. 8.

195 John xv. 5.

196 Luke i. 6. See Ambrose in loco (Exp. 61, 3. 17).

197 Ambrose's Hymns, 3.

198 Ambrose on Luke i. 3.

199 Ambrose on Luke i. 6.

200 Compare Chrysostom's Homily on Eph. ii. 3.

201 This passage, which Pelagius had quoted as from Xystus the Roman bishop and martyr, Augustine subsequently ascertained to have had for its author Sextus, a Pythagorean philosopher. See the passage of the Retractations, ii. 42, at the head of this treatise.

202 Rom. v. 5.

203 2 Cor. iv. 16.

204 1 Tim. ii. 5.

205 John i. 12.

206 Matt. v. 8

207 Jerome on Matt. v. 8 (Comm. Book i. c. 5).

208 Jerome, Against Jovinianus, ii. 3.

209 Rom. v. 5.

210 Eph. iv. 8.

211 Ps. xxv. 17.

212 Augustine, De Libero Arbitrio,iii. 18 (50).

213 Matt. vi. 13.

214 Augustine gives a similar reply to the objection in his Retractations, i. 9.

215 Matt. vi. 12.

216 Rom. vii. 19

217 De Libero Arbitrio, iii. 19.

218 Eph. ii. 3.

219 This passage, and others in this and the following chapters, are marked as quotations, apparently cited from Pelagius by Augustine.

220 For the "difficulty," which is one of the penal consequences of sin, see last chapter, about its middle.

221 1 John i. 8.

222 See 1 Tim. i. 8.

223 Matt. xi. 30.

224 1 John v. 3.

225 Deut. xxx. 14, quoted Rom. x. 8.

226 According to the Septuagint, which adds after e0n th= kardi/a sou the words kai\ e0n tai=j xersi/ sou. This was probably Pelagius' reading. Compare Quaestion. in Deuteron.Book v. 54.

227 Rom. x. 8.

228 Deut. xxx. 2.

229 John xiii. 34.

230 Rom. xiii. 8.

231 Rom. xiii. 10.

232 Prov. ii. 20

233 Ps. xvii. 4.

234 1 Tim. i. 5.

235 See note at beginning of ch. 82 for the meaning of this mark of quotation.

236 Rom. v. 5.

237 1 Rom. ix. 22.

1 These breves definitiones, which Augustine also calls ratiocinationes, are short argumentative statements, which may be designated breviates.

2 [Probably Spanish refugees; they had recently presented to Augustine a memorial against certain heresies. Oros. ad Aug. 1.-W.]



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