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“He was unwilling,” (John 14:30) he says, “to name the desire of the flesh, which is not from the Father but from the world.The devil is called the ruler of this world.He did not find this desire in the Lord, because the Lord came among human beings as a man without it” (1 John 2:16) (Augustine, On Marriage and Concupiscence 2.5.14; compare 1 John 2:16; John 14:30).In the very words of Manichaeus, then, you profess that the desire of the flesh was made not by God but by the world, whose ruler you nevertheless say is the devil (1 John 2:16; John 14:30).
Noluit - inquit - nominare concupiscentiam carnis, quae non est a Patre, sed ex mundo est; cuius mundi princeps dictus est diabolus: qui eam in Domino non invenit, quia Dominus homo non per ipsam ad homines venit [n27] . Verbis ergo ipsius Manichaei, concupiscentiam carnis non a Deo factam, sed a mundo, cuius tamen mundi principem diabolum dicis, conditam profiteris.