To Florus 1.119
How did I come to deserve the dignity of so great an insult? By praising me you could have bestowed nothing like it. You say my views deserve rejection, but God's works deserve condemnation. You declare that I argue badly, but that God creates wickedly. You shout that I err, but that he is cruel. You assert that I do not know the Law, but that God does not know justice. You cry out that I am not catholic because I say Christ calls people in order to save them; but you swear that God creates people to condemn them, and brings them into being for no other reason than that all should go into condemnation (compare Romans 5:18) (Romans 5:18).
Latin
Unde mihi accidit tantae contumeliae dignitas? Nihil in me tale conferre laudando potuisses. Sensa mea dicis esse reprobanda, sed Dei opera damnanda; me male disputare; sed Deum nequiter creare pronuntias, me errare clamas; illum saevire, me asseris nescire legem; Deum vero nescire iustitiam; me vociferaris catholicum non esse, quod dicam Christum provocare quos salvet; Deum vero iuras creare quos damnet, nec ob aliud condere, nisi ut eant omnes in condemnationem.
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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