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To Florus 4.51

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I showed in the third book of my first work that, if natural sin were believed, one would necessarily and irrefutably have to say that Christ too inherited guilt from Mary’s flesh. You place him under the devil’s power by asserting that the entire substance of human beings belongs to the devil’s jurisdiction.

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Ostendi quidem in tertio libello primi operis mei, irrefutabiliter necesse esse dici etiam Christum reatum de Mariae carne traxisse, si crederetur naturale peccatum; eumque a te sub potestate diaboli collocari, qui affirmares ad ius diaboli hominum universam pertinere substantiam.