Julian excerpt
Against Julian 5.1.4
Simple people, who are occupied with other business and have acquired no learning, have nevertheless taken care to enter Christ’s Church through faith alone. They should not be easily frightened by obscure questions. Believing God to be the true creator of human beings, they should also hold without doubt that he is good, truthful, and just. Maintaining this understanding of the Trinity, they should embrace and praise whatever they hear agreeing with this judgment. No force of argument should tear this from them; they should reject every authority and association trying to persuade them of the contrary.
Latin
simplices, qui, aliis occupati negotiis, nihil de eruditione ceperunt, sola tamen fide ad Ecclesiam Christi pervenire curarunt, ne facile obscuris quaestionibus terreantur, sed credentes Deum verum conditorem esse hominum, indubitanter quoque teneant quia pius est, quia verax, quia iustus; atque hanc aestimationem de illa Trinitate servantes, quidquid audierint huic convenire sententiae, amplexentur atque collaudent: nec hoc eis ulla vis argumentationis evellat, sed detestentur omnem auctoritatem atque omnem societatem contraria persuadere nitentem
About this text
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.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Augustine, Against Julian (Latin · Excerpts arranged by Augustine’s books)
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