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Answer to the Letters of Petilian
Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.4
Petilianus said: “Hemmed in, therefore, by these offenses, you cannot be a true bishop.”
Petilianus said: “Hemmed in, therefore, by these offenses, you cannot be a true bishop.”
Augustin answered: By what offenses? What have you shown? What have you proved? And if you have proved charges on the part of I know not whom, what has that to do with the seed of Abraham, in which all the nations of the earth are blessed?