To Turbantius — fragments in Against Julian · §3.2.7 · Julian of Eclanum

Direct quotation

Against Julian 3.2.7

He has spoken against himself. To defend himself, he said that the new heretics call him and his party condemners of marriage and of God’s work. Then he took that back by saying that God and the devil possess a newborn human being in half shares—or rather, that the devil possesses the whole person, with God completely excluded, as it were, from his entire possession, the human being.

Latin source witness

Latin

Contra me ipsum locutum me fuisse: qui cum propter meam defensionem dixerim, ab haereticis novis dici nos damnatores esse nuptiarum, operisque divini, postea id abstulerim, dicendo in semis unciis possideri hominem nascentem a Deo et a diabolo, vel potius totum a diabolo possideri, prorsus excluso Deo velut ab universa sua possessione, quod est homo