Against Two Letters of the Pelagians

St. Augustine of Hippo

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Section 25

The Sixth Calumny,—That Augustin Asserts that Even Christ Was Not Free from Sins

In like manner as to what he added, that I say, “that Christ even was not free from sins, but that, from the necessity of the flesh, He spoke falsely, and was stained with other faults,” he should see from whom he heard these things, or in whose letters he read them; for that, indeed, he perchance did not understand them, and turned them by the deceitfulness of malice into calumnious meanings.