""It clearly appears then, all being discussed, that those testimonies of Scripture have none other meaning than that we must never at all tell a lie: seeing that not any examples of lies, worthy of imitation, are found in the manners and actions of the Saints, as regards those Scriptures which are referred to no figurative signification, such as is the history in the Acts of the Apostles.""
Augustine, De Mendacio.
Sufficient reason to distinguish St. Aug. from the likes of Luther and Calvin--and IMO sort of "semi-pelagian" as y'all say , and concerned with Virtue (and thus related to those...nasty greek thinkers, not merely dogma).
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""It clearly appears then, all being discussed, that those testimonies of Scripture have none other meaning than that we must never at all tell a lie: seeing that not any examples of lies, worthy of imitation, are found in the manners and actions of the Saints, as regards those Scriptures which are referred to no figurative signification, such as is the history in the Acts of the Apostles.""
Augustine, De Mendacio.
Sufficient reason to distinguish St. Aug. from the likes of Luther and Calvin--and IMO sort of "semi-pelagian" as y'all say , and concerned with Virtue (and thus related to those...nasty greek thinkers, not merely dogma).
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