Augustine of Hippo
Six Questions against the Pagans
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Six Questions against the Pagans
Quaestiones expositae contra paganos numero sex
A letter (Letter 102) of around 408–409 answering six objections of a pagan relayed by the priest Deogratias: resurrection, the time of salvation, sacrifices, the measure of eternal punishment, the Son of God according to Solomon, and Jonah in the belly of the fish.
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Authorship note
Reviewed in book II of the Retractationes (works of his episcopate). It is Letter 102 (CSEL 34/2).
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Sources
- Agustín de Hipona. Retractationum libri II. Ed. Almut Mutzenbecher. Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 57. Turnhout: Brepols, 1984.
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