Against Julian 5.15.58

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Remove the reason of his example, and you will also remove the reason for his becoming a ransom for us.

We hurry to faith’s defenses in the hope of being free from evil. Yet we do not become free from what is inborn: male sexual capacity itself remains after baptism.

Latin source witness

Latin

Tolle - inquis - exempli causam, tolletur et pretii, quod pro nobis factus est

Spe - inquis - malo carendi ad fidei praesidia convolamus, non autem caremus innatis: siquidem post Baptisma virilitas ipsa perdurat

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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.

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Copy-text Augustine, Against Julian (Latin · Excerpts arranged by Augustine’s books)

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