Against Julian 3.24.54

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A thing does not escape punishment when other things incur guilt by sharing in it.

If original evil is derived from marriage too, the marital union is a cause of evil.

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Latin

Non evadit - inquis - res illa supplicium, cuius participatione etiam alia trahunt reatum

Si trahitur - inquis - et de nuptiis originale malum, causa mali est conventio nuptiarum

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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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