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Against the Donatists
St Optatus of Milevis, tr. Vassall-Phillips, 1917
Passages Wrongly Attributed to Optatus, Passage C (see p. 279, l. 16)
. . . for if one who has sinned, as did your ancestors, comes to the Church to plead the necessity of his case, first of all let him be received, and then sheltered1 in the kindly bosom of Mother Church.
Nor ought any man, etc.2
Notes
- sustinendus.
- (For continuation see p. 279, line 17.)
For three other probably spurious passages see p. 283, l. 1-4; p. 284, l. 2-5; p. 287, l. 21-22.