0' (Jas. ii. 10), asking his opinion on both subjects. In the former letter I did not give any answer of my own to the question which I proposed; in the latter I did not keep back what seemed to me the best way to solve the question, but asked whether the same solution commended itself to his judgment. He wrote in return, expressing approbation of my submitting the questions to him, but saying that he had not leisure to send me a reply. So long as he lived, therefore, I refused to give these books to the world, lest he should perhaps at any time reply to them, in which case I would have rather published them along with his answer. After his decease, however, I published them,-the former, in order to admonish any who read it, either to forbear altogether from inquiring into the manner in which a soul is given to infants at the time of birth, or, at all events, in a matter so involved in obscurity, to accept only such a solution of the question as does not contradict the clearest truths which the Catholic faith confesses in regard to original sin in infants, as undoubtedly doomed to perdition unless they be regenerated in Christ; the latter m order that what seemed to us the true answer to the question therein discussed might be known. The work begins with the words, `Deum nostrum qui nos vocavit.
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1269 1 Thess ii. 12.
1270 1 Tim. vi. 16.
1271 Matt. viii. 22.
1272 Rom. vii. 24, 25.
1273 We read pertinere, not pertinens.
1274 Job xiv. 4, 5, according to LXX.
1275 Jerome against Jovinian, Book ii.
1276 Jerome On Jonah, ch. iii.
1277 De Libero Arbitro, iii. 21.
1278 Letter CLXV.
1279 John v. 17.
1280 See Letter CLXV., p. 522.
1281 John iii. 10.
1282 Matt. xxiii. 8.
1283 Ex. xviii. 14-25.
1284 Acts x. 25-48.
1285 Gal. ii. 11-21.
1286 Gen. ii. 2.
1287 Isa. xl. 26; translated by Augustin, "Qui profert numerose saeculam."
1288 Rom. vi. 9.
1289 Hieron. Adv. Ruffin. lib. iii.
1290 De libero Arbitrio, lib. iii. ch. 23. n. 67.
1291 1 Cor. xv. 21,22.
1292 Rom. v. 18.
1293 John v. 29.
1294 Cyprian's Letters (LIX., Ad Fidum).
1295 Zech. xii. 1.
1296 Ps. xxxiii. 15 (LXX.).
1297 Ps. li. 10.
1298 Eccles. xii. 7.
1299 John xvi. 12.
1300 Jas. ii. 10.