Augustine quoted in the intermediary document
Marriage 2.2.3
“They shout against us with the greatest hostility that we condemn marriage and God’s work, by which God creates human beings from males and females, because we say that those born from such union inherit original sin. Whatever parents they are born from, we do not deny that they are still under the devil unless they are born again in Christ.”
Latin
Verba ergo de libro meo tibi a me misso tibique notissimoista posuit, quae refutare conatus est: "Damnatores nos esse nuptiarum operisque divini,quo ex maribus et feminis Deus homines creat, invidiosissime clamitant, quoniam dicimus eos qui de tali commixtione nascuntur trahere originale peccatum eosque de parentibus qualibuscumque nascantur non negamus adhuc esse sub diabolo, nisi renascantur in Christo". In his verbis meis testimonium Apostoli quod interposui praetermisit, cuius se premi magna mole sentiebat. Ego enim cum dixissem homines natos trahere originale peccatum, mox hoc intuli quod Apostolus ait: Per unum hominem peccatum intravit in mundum et per peccatum mors; et ita in omnes homines pertransiit, in quo omnes peccaverunt 1. Quo testimonio, ut diximus, praetermisso cetera ille contexuit, quae supra commemorata sunt. Novit enim quemadmodum soleant haec verba apostolica, quae praetermisit, accipere catholicorum corda fidelium. Quae verba tam recta et tanta luce fulgentia tenebrosis et tortuosis interpretationibus novi haeretici obscurare et depravare moliuntur.
About this text
Intermediary extracts Augustine answered in Book Two — compiler framing labeled where needed. Latin context is on each section when recovered.
English follows the extracts Augustine answered in On Marriage and Concupiscence II. Compiler framing is labeled where needed.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Augustine, On Marriage and Concupiscence II (Latin · Extracts of Julian)
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