Direct quotation
Against Julian 3.17.31
The event was prophetic of what has now been shown in the region of Africa: neither the husband nor the chastity of the beautiful and holy woman who represented the church was safe, and she was kept unharmed there by God’s action.
We must pray to this God, most blessed brother Turbantius, dearest fellow priest, that in this time too, by equally mighty acts, he will not delay in rescuing the catholic church—the mature, fruitful, chaste, and beautiful bride of his Son—from violation by the Manichaeans who carry on their raids in Africa or from Africa.
Latin
Factum fuisse propheticum, quod nunc ostensum est in regione Africae; pulchrae et sanctae mulieris, quae Ecclesiae formam tenebat, tutum non esse vel coniugem, vel pudorem, et quia ibi divinitus intacta servata est
Orandus est hic Deus, frater beatissime Turbanti, consacerdos dilectissime, ut paribus etiam hac tempestate virtutibus Ecclesiam catholicam, Filii sui sponsam, maturam, fecundam, castam, decoram, a Manichaeorum constupratione, in Africa vel ex Africa latrocinantium, eruere non moretur
Multo magis a Baptismate prohiberi non debet infans, qui recens natus nihil peccavit, nisi quod secundum Adam carnaliter natus, contagium mortis antiquae prima nativitate contraxit, ut ei remittantur non propria, sed aliena peccata