Julian excerpt in the intermediary document
Marriage 2.24.39
You declare a human being guiltless if born from fornication, but not innocent if born from marriage. That is where your statement leads: a natural good can arise from adultery, while original evil is derived even from marriage.
Latin
"Definis - inquit - hominem, si de fornicatione nascatur, reum non esse; si de coniugio, innocentem non esse. Huc enim pervenit quod dixisti bonum naturale de adulteriis posse subsistere, malum originale etiam de coniugio trahi". Frustra omnino conatur apud intellegentem lectorem, quae sunt recta pervertere. Absit enim, ut dicamus hominem, si de fornicatione nascatur, reum non esse, sed dicimus hominem, sive de coniugio sive de fornicatione nascatur, bonum aliquid esse propter auctorem naturae Deum, malum aliquid trahere propter originale peccatum. Quod ergo dicimus: "Bonum naturale etiam de adulteriis posse subsistere, malum autem originale etiam de coniugio trahi", non huc pervenit, quo ille conatur adducere, non nasci reum de adulteriis nec innocentem de nuptiis, sed ex utroque reum generatione factum propter originale delictum et utrumque regeneratione absolvendum propter naturae bonum.
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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