Against Julian 3.1.4

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One man has come forward who wants people to think that the whole battle depends on him.

We are called new heretics because we maintain that every evil defined as sin consists in the will alone, not in nature.

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unum

egressum, qui in se summam proelii sitam optat intellegi

propterea vos novos haereticos dici, quia omne malum quod peccatum definitur, asseritis non in natura, sed in sola voluntate consistere

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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.

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Copy-text Augustine, Against Julian (Latin · Excerpts arranged by Augustine’s books)

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