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Mani calls nature evil for no other reason than that he considers it deserving of evil, and thinks punishments should be inflicted on it.You also affirm evil exists in human nature, and no different evil from Mani’s: fleshly desire, which you publicly proclaim was poured in by the devil.You say nature is so deserving of evil that you persist in sentencing it to eternal torments.Without doubt, then, you pronounce it utterly evil and condemned in exactly the same way as Mani.
Si ergo et Manichaeus non ob aliud dicit malam naturam, quam quod eam mali meriti arbitratur, cui putat inferenda supplicia, et tu naturae humanae malum inesse confirmas nec aliud malum quam quod Manichaeus, id est concupiscentiam carnis, quam a diabolo contionaris infusam; eamque sic mali meriti esse dicis, ut aeternis eam persistas adiudicare tormentis, non aliter sine dubio quam Manichaeus pessimam illam damnatamque pronuntias.