To Florus 1.118
You, however, have “justified your sister Sodom”, as the prophet says (Ezekiel 16:48, 51, 55). The Manichaean will seem acquitted if compared with your blasphemies. In the first book of my work I had boasted that I was attacked by the mouth from which the apostles too had suffered injury. Now I am awed by the greatness of my good fortune: I am reviled by someone who brings charges against God.
Latin
Tu vero iustificasti, ut Propheta ait, sororem tuam Sodomam [n315] ; absolvi putabitur Manichaeus, si tuis blasphemiis comparetur. Gloriatus in primo operis mei libro fueram, quod eo ore lacerarer, quo et Apostoli iniuriam pertulissent; nunc vero expavesco magnitudinem felicitatis meae; ab eo vituperor, qui criminatur Deum.
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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