To Florus · §4.15 · Julian of Eclanum

To Florus 4.15

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Instead you say I was unwilling to name the desire of the flesh. If I was unwilling to name it, I kept silent; and if I kept silent, I said nothing for you to criticize. Who, then, persuades someone to adopt an error by keeping silent? What new and previously unheard-of monstrosities of accusation! He says a perverse doctrine is being constructed out of my silence!

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Sed ais me noluisse concupiscentiam carnis nominare. Qui nolui nominare, tacui; et si tacui, nihil quod reprehenderes sum locutus: quis ergo errorem persuadet tacendo? O nova criminum et hactenus inaudita portenta! Silentio meo ait perversum dogma componi!