To Florus · §4.72 · Julian of Eclanum

To Florus 4.72

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For you understood that a charge could never be fastened on infants, who have deserved nothing of their own, without condemning bodies. You therefore needed the help of Manichaeus, who excluded the desire of the flesh from God’s works and assigned both marriage and bodies themselves to the devil as their author.

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Intellexisti quippe, parvulis nihil de suo merentibus, nequaquam posse sine damnatione corporum, crimen affigi; et ideo opus esse auxilio Manichaei, qui concupiscentiam carnis a Dei operibus excluderet, et tam nuptias quam ipsa corpora diabolo deputaret auctori.