To Florus 1.115
So that we could not miss the period you mean, you declare that from Adam, who you say was all people in one, until the end, those who have not been baptized are found liable to condemnation and subject to the devil. By this opinion you try to cure yourself far more destructively than you previously wounded yourself. For to remove the hostility rushing upon you because you called the devil humanity's Creator, you correct yourself by acknowledging God as Creator, but of the sort of people the Manichaean assigns to the prince of darkness.
Latin
Ac ne nesciremus de quo tempore loquereris; ab Adam, quem ais unum omnes fuisse, usque ad finem, qui baptizati non sunt, damnationi et diabolo obnoxios pronuntias inveniri. In qua sententia multo te perniciosius curare niteris, quam antea vulnerasti. Nam ut removeres invidiam, quae in te ruebat, quod diceres diabolum conditorem hominum; correctus confiteris Deum conditorem, sed talium, quales ascribit Manichaeus principi tenebrarum.
About this text
Julian’s six preserved books to Florus, quoted section by section in Augustine’s unfinished reply. Augustine’s refutations are omitted. Latin of Julian’s words is on each section.
Julian’s own books do not survive as a separate manuscript. English follows his words as Augustine quotes them in the Unfinished Work Against Julian. Augustine’s replies are omitted. We do not restore a Julian text independent of Augustine.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Augustine, Unfinished Work Against Julian (Latin · Julian’s words as quoted, Books 1–6)
- Checked print Augustinus.it Latin of the Unfinished Work (Latin · Same work)
- Checked print Migne PL 45 (Latin · Hard cases)
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