Reported argument with excerpts
Against Julian 5.15.52
Augustine reports that Julian argued that Christ’s flesh, born from Mary whose flesh descended from Adam like everyone else’s, cannot be distinguished from other human flesh in the interpretation of ‘the likeness of sinful flesh’ (Romans 8:3). Julian’s conclusion, as Augustine restates it, is that no flesh is sinful, so that Christ’s flesh will not be sinful either.
You have not understood this apostolic statement.
Latin
Christi caro, quia de Maria natus est, cuius virginis caro sicut ceterorum omnium ex Adam fuerat propagata, nihil distet a carne peccati, et sine ulla distinctione Apostolus dixisse credatur, eum fuisse missum in similitudine carnis peccati [n125]
ut nulla sit caro peccati, ne hoc sit et Christi
hanc apostolicam sententiam me non intellexisse
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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