To Florus · §4.69 · Julian of Eclanum

To Florus 4.69

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Trying to meet these arguments with a deer’s fear and a fox’s deceit, you deceived the patron to whom you write by telling him that the ruler of darkness dominates God’s works and image because of natural bodily sensation, that is, the desire of the flesh (compare Genesis 1:26–27). Yet the flesh’s sensation must necessarily belong to the same author as the flesh’s nature (Genesis 1:26–27).

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His itaque tu dissertionibus, cervino metu, et vulpino dolo obviam ire conatus, ita imposuisti patrono tuo ad quem scribis, ut referres, propter sensum corporis naturalem, id est concupiscentiam carnis, dominari operibus et imagini Dei principem tenebrarum; cum necesse esset ad eumdem spectare auctorem sensum carnis, ad quem etiam carnis natura respiceret.