Letters

Augustine of Hippo · 420 · Before the division · public-domain-translation

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A selection of 167 of the letters, running from 386 to 429 — the working correspondence of a bishop: a rule for a convent, an argument with Jerome about Galatians, the case for coercing the Donatists, and a letter to a general on how to wage war and stay a peacemaker. Where the Confessions are addressed to God, these are addressed to whoever wrote last.