Against Julian 3.15.29

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Marital chastity is indignant that some have committed what is forbidden, and marvels that others have renounced even what is permitted. Assigned the territory at the furthest boundary, it condemns the savagery of those who rush beyond it and reveres the radiance of those who shine above it. With modest hands it both tends those burning with desire and praises those who do not need such a remedy.

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quae illos illicita commisisse indignatur, hos etiam licita contempsisse miratur; ultimi limitis sortita regionem, ultra se proruentium exsecrata barbariem, supra se micantium venerata fulgorem, quae verecundis manibus et confovet aestuantes, et laudat tali remedio non egentes

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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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