In meekness instructing those that oppose them; if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
Let Pelagius confess that pardon is granted to the repentant according to the grace and mercy of God, not according to his merits. It is that very repentance which the apostle called the gift of God when he said of certain ones, “Lest God perhaps may grant them repentance.” .