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Against Julian 3.26.60

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Infants belong to the good of fruitfulness, which God’s blessing established before the disease of desire, not to the disease of desire itself, if that arose afterward when people sinned. Therefore holiness must be ascribed to those born, and guilt to those who conceive them.

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Ad bonum fecunditatis parvulos pertinere, quae Dei benedictione ante morbum libidinis instituta est; non ad ipsum libidinis morbum, si postea peccantibus accidit; atque ideo sanctitatem adscribendam esse nascentibus, et generantibus culpam