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Du baptême contre les Donatistes

56.

« On ne peut donner que ce que l’on a; or, il est constant que les hérétiques n’ont rien, et dès lors que peuvent-ils donner? »

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The Seven Books of Augustin, Bishop of Hippo On Baptism, Against the Donatists

56.

Quintus of Aggya 1 said: "He who has a thing can give it; but what can the heretics give, who are well known to have nothing?" 2

  1. Aggya, probably the same as Aggiva and the Aga in ecclesiastical province of Proconsular Africa. The name Quintas as bishop occurs in Cypr. Epp lvii., lxvii., lxx., lxxi., but this one is of Mauritania, as appears from Epp lxxii. 1, lxxiii. 1. ↩

  2. Conc. Carth. sec. 65. ↩

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Du baptême contre les Donatistes
The Seven Books of Augustin, Bishop of Hippo On Baptism, Against the Donatists

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