>> “people thought he was crazy.” <<
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Or, more likely, they hoped he was crazy, because thay had no desire to go that way.
BTW-It was Cyprian question “What do you you have that you have not received?” that pushed me over the Calvinistic edge as it did Augustine. If one thinks about that question and what it truly mean, they would come to the same conclusion as Augustine.
Funny, how the early fathers were very Calvinistic in their views. ;O)