Innocent I on the opposition of the Psalms to Pelagianism

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David could not be accused of being ignorant of prayer and unaware of his own nature; if he knew that so much power resided in his nature he nevertheless called on God as his helper, his constant helper; and even this constant help does not satisfy him, but, lest God should at any time despise him, he calls upon Him in abject prayer, and through the whole collection of the Psalms he proclaims his need and cries it aloud. If, therefore, this is something so important to know that he kept saying it constantly, and if he confessed that it is so necessary to teach, how can Pelagius and Caelestius discard every refutation of it in the Psalms, and repudiate all similar teaching, and then believe they can convince some persons that we do not need the help of God, and ought not to ask it, while all the saints bear witness that they can do nothing without it?

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