ACC ~ Acts 15 v11

ALL SALVATION COMES THROUGH THE GRACE OF CHRIST. AUGUSTINE: You, who are enemies of this grace, reject the idea that we should believe that the people of old were saved by the same grace of Jesus Christ. Rather, you distinguish the different times in the manner of Pelagius in whose books this is found. You say that prior to the law they were saved by nature, then through the law and finally through Christ, as if for the human beings of the two earlier periods, namely, prior to the law and under the law, the blood of Christ was not necessary. In that way, you destroy the statement, “For there is one God and one mediator between God and humankind, the man Christ Jesus.” AGAINST TWO LETTERS OF THE PELAGIANS 1.39.

THE UNITY OF FAITH. BEDE: “If therefore they also, that is, the fathers who were unable to bear the yoke of the old law, believed that they were saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, it is clear that this grace made even the just people of old to live, for ‘The just person lives by faith.’” Therefore, on account of the diversity of the times the sacramental signs could be diverse, though nevertheless reverting most harmoniously to the unity of the same faith. COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 15.11.