To Florus · §2.112 · Julian of Eclanum

To Florus 2.112

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It should therefore be understood as acquired by each person through the movement of his own will. What is accused will then be not the fertility of seed, but the perversity of deliberate conduct. If, however, he had intended that one sin to be understood as original, he certainly would not afterward have spoken of many sins which, as he testifies, are forgiven through grace.

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Ut intellegatur ab unoquoque motu propriae voluntatis attractum; et iam non fecunditas seminum, sed studiorum pravitas arguetur. Ceterum si illud unum originale voluisset intellegi, non utique in sequentibus peccata multa dixisset, quae per gratiam dimissa testatur.