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38 The Same Continued PL 44, 343
Bishop John narrated all this in the hearing of Pelagius; but he, of course, might respectfully say: “Your holiness is in error; you do not accurately remember the facts. It was not in reference to the passages of Scripture which you have quoted that I uttered the words: ‘This is what I also believe.’ Because this is not my opinion of them. I do not understand them to say, that God’s grace so co-operates with man, that his abstinence from sin is due, not to ‘him that willeth, nor to him that runneth, but to God that showeth mercy.’”
Haec narravit episcopus Joannes, audiente Pelagio, qui utique posset honorifice dicere: Fallitur Sanctitas tua, non bene meministi, non dixi ad ista testimonia quae de Scripturis commemorasti, « Ego sic credo: » quoniam non ea sic intelligo, quod gratia Dei sic laboret cum homine, ut quod non peccat, non volentis neque currentis, sed miserentis sit Dei.