140 Adrumetum, a maritime city of Africa, was the metropolis of the Province of Byzacium, as Procopius informs us, De Aedificiis Justiniani VI. It was in a monastery here that the monks resided for whose instruction Augustin composed the two following treatises,-the former entitled De Gratiâ et Libero Arbitrio, and the latter De Correptione et Gratiâ, in the year of Christ 426 or 427. In our opinion, no later date can be well assigned to these writings, inasmuch as they are mentioned in The Retractations, which was published about the year 427; nor can they be placed earlier in date, because they are in that work mentioned the very last.
141 See the Second Letter, ch. 2.
142 See Matt. xvi. 17, and Rom. ii. 6.
143 See Matt. xvi. 17, and Rom. ii. 6.
150 1 Cor. i. 31, and 2 Cor. x. 17.
163 The phrase of Christian salutation, vestra caritas which may be rendered "your loving or beloved selves;" it is a parallel phrase with the more familiar one to modern ears, "Your Honour.".
165 The following treatise is here referred to,-On Grace and Free Will.
166 See Epp. 175-177, and 181-183.