Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume IV/Donatist Controversy/Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist/Book II/Chapter 9

by Philip Schaff et al.

Chapter 9.—21.  Petilianus said:  "Hemmed in, therefore, by these offenses, you cannot be a true bishop."

22.  Augustin answered:  By what offenses?  What have you shown?  What have you proved?  And if you have proved charges on the part of I know not whom, what has that to do with the seed of Abraham, in which all the nations of the earth are blessed?