Julian excerpts and scripture
Against Julian 5.6.24
How fittingly Jeremiah, with the chorus of prophets and all the saints, would cry out: ‘Who will give water to my head and a fountain of tears to my eyes?’ (Jeremiah 9:1).
Glorious struggles.
The wickedness of a declining age.
The ruin of morals.
The destruction of modesty.
They say with the Manichaeans that a necessity of evil exists in their flesh.
Latin
O quam digne Ieremias cum prophetarum choro et sanctorum omnium exclamaret: Quis dabit capiti meo aquam, et oculis meis fontem lacrimarum? [n66]
gloriosa certamina
augetis
occidui temporis pravitatem
estis ruina morum
pudoris interitus
cum Manichaeis dicunt, inesse carni suae mali necessitatem
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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