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Before they experienced grace, Paul was a Christian-persecuting Pharisee and Augustine was a brilliant, dissolute young Manichee about 4th Century Carthage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tomorrow I shall find it; it will appear manifestly and I shall grasp it; to, Faustus the Manichee will come, and clear every thing!
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
A Manichee would have made a scandal in a city where the greatest part of the population was Christian, and the Court was Catholic, although it did not conceal its sympathy with Arianism.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
To make matters worse, the Manichee Bishop of Rome made a bad impression on him from the very outset.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
The East was drained of all available troops, and Sebastian the Manichee, the old enemy of Athanasius, was placed in command.
From The Arian Controversy by Henry Melvill Gwatkin
