To Florus 3.53
Who are you, rushing to destroy fairness under the impulse of Marcion’s frenzy? Who are you, forcing both God’s judgments and his commands under the censorship of your tongue, still slippery from Manichaean mysteries? No one ever attempted this without first rejecting them. Will you dare, with Mani as your authority, to break God’s testament, which reason, fairness, devotion, and truth—as though a line of sacred witnesses—sealed through the prophets writing faithfully? You long ago lost both purity of understanding and the appearance of religion if you think the pronouncement in Ezekiel either offers support for your inherited sin or fails to contain its destruction (Ezekiel 18:19–20).
Latin
Quis tu es, qui oestro Marcionis concitatus in excidium aequitatis irrumpas? Qui sub censuram linguae tuae mysteriis adhuc Manichaeorum lubricae Dei tam iudicia quam praecepta compellas? Nemo hoc umquam facere, nisi qui prius ea negavit, aggressus est. Tu testamentum Dei, quod ratio aequitas pietas veritas fide scribentibus Prophetis quasi quidam sacrorum testium ordo signavit, audebis Manichaeo auctore perrumpere. Olim et intellegentiae sanctitatem et religionis speciem perdidisti, si hac sententia, quae apud Ezechielem est, traducis tuae putes aut auxilium reperiri aut exitium non teneri.