Book III

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Book III.

In this book Augustin refutes the second letter ²³¹⁹ which Petilianus wrote to him after having seen the first of Augustin’s earlier books.  This letter had been full of violent language; and Augustin rather shows that the arguments of Petilianus had been deficient and irrelevant, than brings forward arguments in support of his own statements.

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Possidius, in the third chapter of his Indiculus, designates this third book as "One book against the second letter of the same."  Cp. Aug. Retractt. Bk. II. c. xxv.