St. Augustine on Inerrancy - AD400
For those that want to argue that “inerrancy” is a novel doctrine that only developed in reaction to the liberal Biblical scholarship of the 19 th century, consider the words of Augustine himself writing around the year AD400. “it is not allowable to say, the author of these books is mistaken…[if there appears to be an error] either the manuscript [copy] is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have misunderstood” (Against Faustus, 11.5).