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On the Spirit and the Letter

St. Augustine of Hippo

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Section 1

Extract from Augustin’s Retractations

Extract from Augustin’s “Retractations,”

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Extract from Augustin’s Retractations
Argument
The Occasion of Writing This Work; A Thing May Be Capable of Being Done, and Yet May Never Be Done
The Examples Apposite
Theirs is Comparatively a Harmless Error, Who Say that a Man Lives Here Without Sin
Theirs is a Much More Serious Error, Requiring a Very Vigorous Refutation, Who Deny God’s Grace to Be Necessary
True Grace is the Gift of the Holy Ghost, Which Kindles in the Soul the Joy and Love of Goodness
The Teaching of Law Without the Life-Giving Spirit is 'The Letter that Killeth.'
What is Proposed to Be Here Treated
Romans Interprets Corinthians
Through the Law Sin Has Abounded
Christ the True Healer
From What Fountain Good Works Flow
Paul, Whence So Called; Bravely Contends for Grace
Keeping the Law; The Jews’ Glorying; The Fear of Punishment; The Circumcision of the Heart
In What Respect the Pelagians Acknowledge God as the Author of Our Justification
The Righteousness of God Manifested by the Law and the Prophets
How the Law Was Not Made for a Righteous Man
The Exclusion of Boasting
Piety is Wisdom; That is Called the Righteousness of God, Which He Produces
The Knowledge of God Through the Creation

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