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Against Julian 3.26.59

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If, before sin, God created that from which human beings would be born, while the devil supplied what would stir their parents, holiness is certainly to be ascribed to those born, and guilt to those who conceive them.

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Si ante peccatum - inquis - per Deum creatum est unde homines nascerentur, per diabolum autem unde parentes commoverentur; adscribitur sine dubio sanctitas nascentibus, et culpa generantibus

Parentes commoverentur

Fieret sine isto morbo seminatio filiorum in corpore vitae illius, sine quo nunc fieri non potest in corpore mortis huius