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Chapter 63.—141.  Petilianus said:  "But wherein do you fulfill the commandments of God?  The Lord Christ said, ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.’  But you by your malice in persecution breathe forth the riches of madness."

142.  Augustin answered:  Address that rather to your own Circumcelliones.