To Florus 4.135
Just as the seed is called cursed here, elsewhere, in a reading of greater authority, it is called blessed. For the prophet Isaiah says of the Israelites: “They will build houses and inhabit them themselves; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit themselves. They will not build for others to inhabit, or plant for others to eat. For the days of my people will be like the days of the tree of life. The works of their lips endure. My chosen ones will not labor in vain or beget children under a curse, because they are seed blessed by God” (Isaiah 65:21–23).
Latin
Sicut autem hic semen maledictum, sic alibi equidem, ubi maior est lectionis auctoritas, semen dicitur benedictum. Loquens enim de Israelitis Isaias propheta: Aedificabunt, inquit, domus, et ipsi inhabitabunt; pastinabunt vineas, et ipsi manducabunt fructus earum; non aedificabunt, et alii habitabunt; et non pastinabunt, et alii manducabunt. Secundum enim dies ligni vitae, erunt dies populi mei; opera labiorum eorum perseverant; electi mei non laborabunt in vacuum, nec filios procreabunt in maledicto, quia semen benedictum a Deo est [n215] .