Epistulae

An anti-Donatist sermon on fasting: Augustine’s De utilitate ieiunii. A new critical edition with philological introduction

“…(1951) S. Dominic Ruegg confirmed Combès' dating of the sermon between 408 and 412again with a preference for 411(-412). 93 to the Rogatist bishop Vincentius of Cartennae (407/408 according to the chronological table of the Augustinus-Lexikon) 90 can serve as a terminus ad quem for dating the change in Augustine's attitude towards the use of coercion in dealing with the Donatists. ieiun.…”

“…This claim, that is made immediately in the paragraphs' opening lines (Ne ergo arbitretur dilectio uestra quod inimica sit caro spiritui, quasi alter sit auctor carnis, alter sit auctor spiritus ; ll [89][90],. Compare G. Combès, Bibliothèque Augustinienne 1/2 (Paris 1937) pp.…”