Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume IV/Donatist Controversy/Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist/Book II/Chapter 94

by Philip Schaff et al.

Chapter 94.—214.  Petilianus said:  "Where is the law of God? where is your Christianity, if you not only commit murders and put men to death, but also order such things to be done?"

215.  Augustin answered:  In reply to this, see what the fellow-heirs of Christ say throughout the world.  We neither commit murders, and put men to death, nor order such things to be done; and you are raging much more madly than those who do such things, in that you put such things into the minds of men in opposition to the hopes of everlasting life.