In 411 AD. Alaric made his secod raid on Rome and that caused Pelagius and Colestius to flee to Africa, and then on to Palastine. But Pelagius left Coelestius behind in Carthage to teach his doctrine there. In Carthage Coelestius sought to be ordained. But when Paulinus, and deacon of the local church heard the false teaching of Coelestius, he stood before the church counsel and accused Coelestus of being a heretic. In response to the charges of heresy, Bishop Aurelius presided over a Synod which Paulinus brought up seven charges against the Pelagian teachings and against Coelestius himself. Coelestius refused to repent of his heresies and was condemned and excommunicated by the church Synod. He sailed to Ephesus where he obtained his ordination. A short time later, two bishops who were in Palestine lodged a formal charge against Pelagius and Coelestius. The Bishop of Caesarea held a Synod there in Dec 415 AD. Which had 14 Bishops present. None of them could understand what was written, and the two bishops that had made the accusations of heresy against Pelagius and Coelestius were sick with an illness that prevented them from attending. Pelagius was well versed in Latin, so he stood and read the Latin accusations into the Bishops Greek ears, and using a deception that would make Satan himself blush. Warfield writes 'Pelagius escaped condemnation only by a course of most ingenious disingenuousness, and only at the cost both of disowning Coelestius and his teachings, of which he had been the real father, and of leading the synod to believe that he was anathematizing the very doctrines which he was himself proclaiming.'
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