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In my first work, then, I examined his statement: ‘For just as sin, whether infants derive it from this source or that, is the devil’s work, so a human being, whether born from this source or that, is God’s work’ (Augustine, Marriage and Desire 1.1).I quote it here as it stands in my own work, from which this man had stolen a very large portion.
Retractans igitur in primo opere meo sententiam eius, qua dixerat: Nam sicut peccatum, sive hinc, sive inde trahatur a parvulis, opus est diaboli; sic homo, sive hinc, sive inde nascatur, opus est Dei [n23] ; ita autem a me nunc hic refertur, sicut in meo opere continetur, unde maximam partem fuerat iste furatus.