Intermediary compiler’s heading
Marriage 2.4.11
Against those who condemn marriage and assign its fruits to the devil (Genesis 4:1).
Latin
Quae sequuntur ergo, ita praenotavit qui tuae dilectioni chartulam misit: "Contra eos - inquit - qui nuptias damnant, et fructus earum diabolo assignant". Non igitur contra nos, qui neque nuptias damnamus, quas etiam in ordine suo debita praedicatione laudamus; nec earum fructus diabolo adsignamus; fructus quippe nuptiarum homines sunt, qui ordinate inde generantur, non peccata, cum quibus nascuntur. Nec ideo sunt homines sub diabolo, quia homines sunt, ubi sunt fructus nuptiarum, sed quia peccatores sunt, ubi est propago vitiorum; diabolus enim culpae auctor est, non naturae.
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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