To Florus 4.37
Then respectable people are also wrong to take care to screen natural functions with modesty. So you yourself should evacuate the remains of your food—which you certainly admit do not belong to lust—under the people’s eyes. Indeed, to lend your doctrine authority by your example, perform in church everything you say happens at the will’s command. Be content to hide only the act of sexual union, from which you long ago abstained by resolution and perhaps now also through old age. Say that it is a great sacrilege for anything whose creator is God to avoid public view. Eat, then, in the marketplace or in the meeting places where your arguments resound. And when clothes become a burden under a scorching sun, cover only that part of your body that the devil has moved, and walk about otherwise naked. For you pronounce it ungrateful and profane to cover anything assigned to God’s works. Since you do none of these things—unless further progress has already brought you to do them—your very conduct confirms one of two conclusions: either everything you do not perform in public view belongs to the devil, or your doctrine has fallen, on the testimony, if not of your heart, at least of your belly.
Latin
Errat etiam honestorum cautio, quae naturalibus rebus verecundiae praetendit umbracula. Tu ergo ipse reliquias ciborum, quas certe confiteris non pertinere ad libidinem, sub oculis depelle populorum; immo ut dogmati tuo auctoritatem concilies exemplo, in Ecclesia facito omnia, quae ad nutum dicis fieri voluntatis, contentusque operam solius commixtionis occulere, a qua, et olim proposito, forsitan, et nunc senio destitisti, dicito ad grande sacrilegium pertinere, si res quae Deum conditorem habet, publicum vitet aspectum. Comede igitur in foro, aut in synagogis, in quibus disputationes tuae personant; et cum vestimenta sub sole torrido fuerint, oneri, tegens illam tantummodo corporis tui partem quam diabolus movit, reliqua nudus incedito; quia pronuntias ingratum esse et profanum, si quid tegatur quod Dei operibus adscribitur. Quod cum horum nihil facis (si tamen non proficiendo feceris), ipsis operibus confirmas alterum de duobus, aut omnia ista ad diabolum pertinere, quae non exsequeris sub conspectu publico; aut dogma vestrum, si non corde, vel ventre tuo teste cecidisse.