John Cassian: source notes

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Topic: salvation

See salvation reasoning.

SAL S1: Conference 13.8

• Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/350813.htm
• Text: “when He sees in us some beginnings of a good will, He at once enlightens it and strengthens it and urges it on towards salvation, increasing that which He Himself implanted or which He sees to have arisen from our own efforts.”
• Context: Note the disjunction: “He Himself implanted or … arisen from our own efforts”. This is the position later labelled “semi-Pelagian” and opposed by Prosper and by Orange canon 5.
• Bears on: S1, S2
• Status: verified (English)