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Augustine Letters 211-270 This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com 3 Letters Augustinian Heritage Institute, Inc. Board of Directors + John E. Rotelle, O.S.A. (1939-2002), founding director Michael T. Dolan Daniel E. Doyle, O.S.A. Joseph T. Kelley Patricia H. Lo Thomas Martin, O.S.A. Jane E. Merdinger Boniface Ramsey Translation Advisory Board Gerald Bonner Maria Boulding, O.S.B. Allan D. Fitzgerald, O.S.A. Edmund Hill, O.P. Joseph McGowan Boniface Ramsey Roland J. Teske, S.J. THE WORKS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE A Translation for the 21st Century Part II - Letters Volume 4: Letters 211 - 270, 1* - 29* THE WORKS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE A Translation for the 21st Century Letters 211 - 270, 1* - 29* (Epistulae) II/4 translation and notes by Roland Teske, S.J. editor Boniface Ramsey New City Press Hyde Park, New York rsfik ■$ f '"* Published in the United States by New City Press 202 Cardinal Rd., Hyde Park, New York 12538 ©2005 Augustinian Heritage Institute Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. The works of Saint Augustine. "Augustinian Heritage Institute" Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: — pt. 3, v . 1 5. Expositions of the Psalms, 1 -32 — pt. 3, v. 1. Sermons on the Old Testament, 1-19. — pt. 3, v. 2. Sermons on the Old Testament, 20-50 — [et al.] — pt. 3, v. 10 Sermons on various subjects, 341-400. 1 . Theology — Early church, ca. 30-600. I. Hill, Edmund. II. Rotelle, John E. III. Augustinian Heritage Institute. IV. Title. BR65.A5E53 1990 270.2 89-28878 ISBN 1-56548-055-4 (series) ISBN 1-56548-209-3 (pt. 2, v. 4) Printed in the United States of America For Dr. Dorothea Weber a great friend and scholar Contents Introduction 11 Letter 211: Augustine to the nuns of Hippo 19 Letter 212: Augustine to Quintilian 29 Letter 21 2A: Augustine to Firmus 30 Letter 213: Augustine for Heraclius 32 Letter 214: Augustine to Valentine 36 Letter 215: Augustine to Valentine 40 Letter 2 15A: Augustine to Valentine 45 Letter 216: Valentine to Augustine 46 Letter 217: Augustine to Vitalis 51 Letter 218: Augustine to Palatinus 67 Letter 219: Augustine and others to Proculus and Cillenius 69 Letter 220: Augustine to Boniface 72 Letter 221: Quod vultdeus to Augustine 79 Letter 222: Augustine to Quodvultdeus 81 Letter 223: Quodvultdeus to Augustine 83 Letter 224: Augustine to Quodvultdeus 85 Letter 225: Prosper to Augustine 87 Letter 226: Hilary to Augustine 95 Letter 227: Augustine to Alypius 103 Letter 228: Augustine to Honoratus 105 Letter 229: Augustine to Darius 113 Letter 230: Darius to Augustine 115 Letter 231: Augustine to Darius 119 Letter 232: Augustine to the people of Madaura 124 Letter 233: Augustine to Longinianus 129 Letter 234: Longinianus to Augustine 130 Letter 235: Augustine to Longinianus 132 Letter 236: Augustine to Deuterius 134 Letter 237: Augustine to Ceretius 136 Letter 238: Augustine to Pascentius 142 Letter 239: Augustine to Pascentius 156 Letter 240: Pascentius to Augustine 158 Letter 241: Augustine to Pascentius 159 Letter 242: Augustine to Elpidius 161 Letter 243: Augustine to Laetus 164 Letter 244: Augustine to Chrisimus 171 Letter 245: Augustine to Possidius 173 Letter 246: Augustine to Lampadius 175 Letter 247: Augustine to Romulus 177 Letter 248: Augustine to Sebastian 180 Letter 249: Augustine to Restitutus 182 Letter 250: Augustine to Auxilius 183 Letter 250A: Augustine to Classicianus 186 Letter 25 1 : Augustine to Pancarius 187 Letter 252: Augustine to Felix 188 Letter 253: Augustine to Benenatus 189 Letter 254: Augustine to Benenatus 190 Letter 255: Augustine to Rusticus 191 Letter 256: Augustine to Christinus 192 Letter 257: Augustine to Orontius 193 Letter 258: Augustine to Martianus 194 Letter 259: Augustine to Cornelius 197 Letter 260: Audax to Augustine 200 Letter 261: Augustine to Audax 201 Letter 262: Augustine to Ecdicia 203 Letter 263: Augustine to Sapida 209 Letter 264: Augustine to Maxima 212 Letter 265: Augustine to Seleuciana 215 Letter 266: Augustine to Florentina 219 Letter 267: Augustine to Fabiola 222 Letter 268: Augustine to the leaders of the church of Hippo 223 Letter 269: Augustine to Nobilius 225 Letter 270: Anonymous to Augustine 226 Letter 1*: Augustine to Classicianus 227 Letter 1 A*: Augustine to Firmus 230 Letter 2*: Augustine to Firmus 232 Letter 3*: Augustine to Felix 241 Letter 4*: Augustine to Cyril 245 Letter 5*: Augustine to Valentinian 248 Letter 6*: Augustine to Atticus 250 Letter 7*: Augustine to Faustinus 255 Letter 8*: Augustine to Victor 257 Letter 9*: Augustine to Alypius 259 Letter 10*: Augustine to Alypius 262 Letter 11*: Consentius to Augustine 267 Letter 12*: Consentius to Augustine 279 Letter 13*: Augustine to Restitutus 287 Letter 14*: Augustine to Dorotheus 289 Letter 15*: Augustine to some clerics of Thagaste 290 Letter 16*: Augustine to Aurelius 292 Letter 17*: Augustine to Boniface 294 Letter 18*: Augustine to the church of Memblibanum 295 Letter 19*: Augustine to Jerome 297 Letter 20*: Augustine to Fabiola 299 Letter 21*: Augustine to the people of Suppa 313 Letter 22*: Augustine to Alypius and Peregrinus 314 Letter 23*: Augustine to Renatus 319 Letter 23 A*: Augustine to Optatus 320 Letter 24*: Augustine to Eustochius 323 Letter 25*: Augustine to Deogratias, Theodore, Titian, Quintian, Quodvultdeus, Carissimus and Comes 325 Letter 26*: Augustine to Honoratus 326 Letter 27*: Jerome to Aurelius 328 Letter 28*: Augustine to Novatus and other brothers 330 Letter 29*: Augustine to Paulinus 333 Index of Scripture 335 General Index 341 Introduction The present volume contains ninety-four letters, the last sixty-three of the previously known letters and the thirty-one more recently discovered and edited by Johannes Divjak in the final quarter of the last century.1 There are eighty-one letters of which Augustine is the author, including Letter 2 1 9, which was sent by Augustine and three other African bishops to two bishops in Gaul regarding Leporius, who had been accused of teaching heretical views similar to Nestorianism. There are thirteen letters from others, including Letter 27* from Jerome of Bethlehem to Aurelius of Carthage, in which Jerome congratulates Aurelius on having been made bishop of Carthage. In his Patrologia Latina, published in the middle of the nineteenth century, J. P. Migne grouped together Letters 232 through 270 under the rubric of letters whose date of composition was unknown. To the best of our knowledge most of them can only be dated to the period after 395, in which year Augustine was ordained bishop. Since each of the letters has an introduction of its own, this general introduction will merely indicate the relation among various letters, if there is any, and the general topic of each letter. The topic of five letters, namely, Letters 238, 239, and 242 to Pascentius, Letter 24 1 from Pascentius, and Letter 242 from Elpidius, is Homoian Arianism, which continued to flourish, especially in military circles. This more moderate form of Arianism held that the Son was a great God, but a lesser God than the Father. Six letters relate to the controversy late in Augustine's life with various monks at Hadrumetum in Africa and in Provence in Gaul. Augustine wrote Letters 214,215, and 2 1 5 A to Valentine, the abbot of Hadrumetum, where some of Valentine' s monks objected to Augustine' s teaching on grace. In order to win over these monks to his view Augustine wrote for them Grace and Free Choice and Rebuke and Grace. Letter 216 from Valentine to Augustine describes the whole background to the dispute. Two other letters, namely, Letter 225 from Prosper of Aquitaine and Letter 226 from Hilary, a layman from Gaul, inform Augustine of the reasons that have led the monks of Provence to reject his 1 . For the Divjak letters, see Epistulae ex duobus codicibus nuper in lucem prolatae, ed. Johannes Divjak. Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 88 (Vienna: Hoelder-Pichler- Tempsky, 1981) and Bibliotheque Augustinienne 46B. Lettres l*-29*, ed. J. Divjak with various commentators (Paris: Etudes Augustiniennes, 1987). The BA edition contains invaluable notes and commentary. Along with the twenty-nine letters discovered by Divjak these volumes contain one letter discovered earlier in the last century: Letter 1A*, first published by C. Lambot in Revue Benedictine 51 (1939): 109-121. Letters 23* and 23A* formed a single letter in the manuscripts. 11 12 Introduction teaching on the beginning of faith, the gift of perseverance, and predestination. Augustine wrote The Gift of Perseverance and The Predestination of the Saints for them. Four letters make up the exchange between Quodvultdeus, a deacon in the church of Carthage and later its bishop, and Augustine. In Letters 221 through 223 the deacon pleads with Augustine to write a compendium on all the heresies that have arisen since the coming of Christ. In Letter 224 Augustine finally agrees to write the work that Quodvultdeus wanted, which he produced in his final years, while he was writing his Revisions and the Unfinished Work in Answer to Julian, and which he entitled Heresies. Three letters make up the exchange between Augustine and Count Darius, who had been sent to Africa to negotiate a peace with the rebellious general Boniface. Augustine sent him Letter 229, complimenting the count on his repu tation and urging him to achieve peace. Darius replied in Letter 230, and Augus tine in turn sent him Letter 23 1 along with a copy of The Confessions, which Darius had requested. The present volume also contains two letters to Boniface, the Count of Africa, to whom Augustine had also written Letters 185, 189, and 185 A.
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