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  • A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace, in One Book, Addressed to Valentine, and with Him to the Monks of Adrumetum, by Aurelius Augustin [Saint Augustine], Bishop of Hippo, AD 426 or 427. On pages 468-491 of A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, edited by Philip Schaff, D.D., LL.D., Volume V: St. Augustin: Anti-Pelagian Writings, translated by Peter Holmes, D.D., F.R.A.S., Rev. Robert Ernest Wallis, Ph.D., with translation revised by Prof. Benjamin B. Warfield, D.D., (New York: The Christian Literature Company, 1887). May be read online at Internet Archive with a second copy at Internet Archive.

On the questions of predestination and foreknowledge, see the related ebooks listed on the page Grace and Salvation. On the duty of admonition, see this related text:

  • “Fraternal Correction, a Help along the Path to Holiness”, by Juan Alonso (July 2010). Available in pdf format on this page of Opus Dei.

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“And… the word of the Lord came to me, saying… If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted… the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand… Moreover, if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity… because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin… but I will require his blood at thy hand.” (Ezechiel iii)

“I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ… Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, entreat, rebuke with all patience and doctrine. For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: And will turn away indeed their hearing from the truth but will be turned to fables. But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.” (II Timothy iv)

“[I]f the faith were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly. Hence Paul, who was Peter’s subject, rebuked him in public, on account of the imminent danger of scandal concerning faith, and, as the gloss of Augustine says on Galatians 2:11, Peter gave an example to superiors, that if at any time they should happen to stray from the straight path, they should not disdain to be reproved by their subjects… [W]hen a man reproves his prelate charitably, it does not follow that he thinks himself any better, but merely that he offers his help to one who, being in the higher position among you, is therefore in greater danger, as Augustine observes….” (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 2a 2ae, q.33, a.4 ad 2-3, cited by Dave Armstrong)