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Answer to the Letters of Petilian

Blessed Augustine, NPNF I.4

Petilianus said: “‘Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for …

Petilianus said: “‘Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.’ To you it seems to be righteousness that you thirst after our blood.”

Augustin answered: What shall I say unto thee, O man, except that thou art calumnious? The unity of Christ, indeed, is hungering and thirsting after all of you; and I would that it might swallow you up, for then would you be no longer heretics.