Julian argument
Against Julian 5.14.51
A thing existing in a subject cannot exist without the thing in which it inheres. Therefore the evil in a parent, existing in that subject, cannot transmit guilt to another thing—the offspring—to which it has not passed.
Latin
Rem quae in subiecto est, sine illa re esse non posse, in qua subiecta est. Et ideo, putas, malum quod est in parente, utique in subiecto, alii rei, id est proli, ad quam non pervenit, reatum non posse transmittere
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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