To Florus 3.66
What, then, have we established? That the nonexistence of inherited sin is so certain that, even if you showed children punished for Adam’s sin, it would still be established that sins cannot be inborn and guilt cannot travel with reproductive seed, since you would admit that this does not happen in all reproduction. Consequently, even if vices were handed on to persons, they would not be mixed into conception.
But as it stands, you and I agree that a parent’s sin could not pass to children except through corruption and guilt in generation itself. Reason, examples, and the law agree that the condition of generation cannot possibly have been corrupted. Your own concession confirms this, for you say that no parents’ sins except those of two people pass to their children. It has therefore been established beyond defeat that the devil neither corrupted the first humans’ reproductive power nor made any sin capable of being born.
Latin
Quid igitur actum est? Videlicet tam certum esse traducem non esse peccati ut, etiamsi doceres propter Adae peccatum filios puniri, constaret tamen innasci peccata non posse nec crimen ire cum semine, quando non hoc in omni fecunditate esse faterere; ac per hoc, etsi traderentur personis vitia, non tamen conceptibus miscerentur. Nunc au tem cum inter me et te conveniat parentum peccatum ad filios nisi vitio et reatu generationis non potuisse transire, rationi autem, exemplis legique convenerit generationis statum nullo pacto potuisse vitiari, quod ex tua etiam concessione firmatur, qui dicis nullorum parentum peccata praeter duorum ad liberos permeare, invictissime confectum est nec fecunditatem primorum hominum a diabolo fuisse corruptam nec nasci ullum posse peccatum.