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Against Julian 4.8.51

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If someone commits murder while their conscience is afraid, they are guilty because they were afraid. But if they commit some crime with triumphant boldness, as though believing that they do their evil deed from faith, they escape guilt.

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Si quis homicidium conscientia formidante commiserit, reus est, quia timuit; si autem aliquod facinus exsultante perpetrarit audacia, velut credens se ex fide facere quod male facit, evasit culpam