To Florus 2.152
Christ both forgave the will’s crimes, from which they had been free to abstain, and granted the glory of blessed eternity to those corrected by imitation of him, the model and rule of virtues. Although Paul addresses both nations as the course and demands of his book require, in these disputed passages he is engaged entirely with the Israelites. They dared to despise those coming from uncircumcised stock so thoroughly that they asserted these people could not enter their fellowship even through the support of faith. Against this arrogance he recounts the Jewish people’s beginnings and shows, at the very root of circumcision, that the foreskin is not so important that leaving it makes people unjust or removing it makes them just.
Latin
Qui et crimina voluntatis ignovit, a quibus liberum fuerat abstinere, et sui imitatione, qui erat virtutum forma et norma, correctis gloriam beatae aeternitatis indulsit. Cum ergo utramque nationem pro voluminis sui tempore et iure conveniat, in his tamen locis, de quibus quaestio est, cum Israelitis omnino manum conserit, qui audebant de praeputiorum stirpe venientes eo usque despicere ut affirmarent eos nec suffragio fidei ad consortium suum transire potuisse; contra quod supercilium replicat Iudaeae gentis exordia et in ipsa radice circumcisionis ostendit non tanti esse praeputium, ut aut iniustos eius relictio aut iustos faciat eius ablatio.
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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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