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Answer to the Letters of Petilian

Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.4

Petilianus said: “But wherein do you fulfill the commandments of God? The Lord Christ …

Petilianus said: “But wherein do you fulfill the commandments of God? The Lord Christ said, ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.’ But you by your malice in persecution breathe forth the riches of madness.”

Augustin answered: Address that rather to your own Circumcelliones.