To Florus · §4.115 · Julian of Eclanum

To Florus 4.115

Click or tap any sentence to jump there. The side buttons skip a paragraph.

No one has the right to accept definitions and exclude their consequences. Therefore anyone who says infants belong to the devil’s jurisdiction because they are generated from sexual union undoubtedly condemns that union, in which nature acts, together with nature’s own institution.

Latin source witness

Latin

Neque enim in iure cuiusquam est definita suscipere, et quae consequuntur excludere. Qui ergo dicit propter hoc parvulos ad ius diaboli pertinere, quoniam de sexus commixtione generantur; sine dubio ipsam commixtionem, in qua naturae opus est, cum naturae ipsius institutione condemnat.