To Florus 3.36
Enough of gentler speech. The brightness of blazing reason now shows that evil and good, profane and sacred, godly and ungodly, just and unjust have no partnership. Therefore there is no conflict between God’s commands and judgments. Charging people with others’ sins is contrary to commanding that those same sins must not be charged to them. Of these two, accepting one necessarily excludes the other; showing one just shows the other unjust. Yet God’s law prescribes that parents’ sins must not be charged to their children (Deuteronomy 24:16). Consequently, by that same authority, its opposite—the theory of inherited sin—has collapsed completely, together with the Manichaeans (2 Corinthians 6:14).
Latin
Verum hactenus mitiore sim functus eloquio, nunc autem splendor flammeae rationis ostendit malis et bonis, profanis et sacris, piis et impiis, iustis et iniquis nullum esse consortium atque ideo inter praecepta et iudicia Dei nihil esse pugnarum, contrarium autem esse aliena peccata aliis imputare et, eadem ne imputentur, iubere, quoniam de his duobus necesse est uno concesso alterum summoveri, id est uno iusto alterum iniquum doceri, in legem autem Dei praescriptum esse, ne parentum peccata filiis imputentur [n41] , ac per hoc eadem auctoritate contrarium eius id est opinionem traducis cum Manichaeis funditus corruisse.