Direct quotation
Against Julian 2.2.4
Those who are said to sin are not sinning at all, if, whoever created them, they must live according to the way they were created and cannot resist their own nature.
Latin
Per unum - inquit - Dominum Iesum salus ventura nationibus declaratur, qui solus non potuit iustus esse, cum generatio omnis erraret, nisi natus ex Virgine generationis obnoxiae privilegio minime teneretur. Ecce, inquit, in iniquitatibus conceptus sum, et in delictis peperit me mater mea [n5] , dicit is qui iustus prae ceteris putabatur. Quem igitur iam iustum dixerim, nisi horum liberum vinculorum, quem naturae communis vincula non teneant? Omnes sub peccato, ab Adam in omnes regnabat mors. Veniat solus iustus in conspectu Dei, de quo iam non cum exceptione dicatur: Non peccavit in labiis suis [n6] ; sed: Peccatum non fecit [n7]
Nec peccare eos omnino, qui peccare dicuntur: siquidem a quocumque creati sunt, secundum id quod creati sunt, necesse habent vivere, nec suae repugnare naturae
About this text
Earlier four-book work to Turbantius, surviving as excerpts arranged by Augustine’s witness. Latin source text is on each section when recovered.
English follows Julian’s words as Augustine excerpts them in Against Julian. This is not a recovered complete To Turbantius.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Augustine, Against Julian (Latin · Excerpts arranged by Augustine’s books)
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