S. AURELII AUGUSTINI HIPPONENSIS EPISCOPI DE ANIMA ET EJUS ORIGINE LIBRI QUATUOR .
LIBER SECUNDUS. AD PETRUM PRESBYTERUM.
LIBER TERTIUS. AD VINCENTIUM VICTOREM.
Book II.
In the Shape of a Letter Addressed to the Presbyter Peter.
He advises Peter not to incur the imputation of having approved of the books which had been addressed to him by Victor on the origin of the soul, by any use he might make of them, nor to take as Catholic doctrines that person’s rash utterances contrary to the Christian faith. Victor’s various errors, and those, too, of a very serious character, he points out and briefly confutes; and he concludes with advising Peter himself to try to persuade Victor to amend his errors.
To his Lordship, my dearly beloved brother and fellow-presbyter Peter, Augustin, bishop, sendeth greeting in the Lord.
LIBER SECUNDUS. AD PETRUM PRESBYTERUM.
Petrum admonet Augustinus, ne committat, ut libros de animae Origine a Vincentio Victore ad eum scriptos laudando approbasse, aut quae temere ille scripsit fidei Christianae contraria, pro dogmatibus catholicis habere existimetur. Errores Victoris varios, eosque gravissimos notat, et verbis confutat paucis. Petro demum ipsi suadet, ut Victorem ad eos corrigendos adducat.
Domino dilectissimo fratri et compresbytero PETRO, AUGUSTINUS episcopus, in Domino salutem.