Julian allegations and an authority he invokes
Against Julian 6.14.44
People are not renewed through baptism, but only supposedly renewed; not freed, but only supposedly freed; not saved, but only supposedly saved.
Augustine reports that Julian compares this position to Epicurus’s teaching that the gods have not a body but something like a body, not blood but something like blood.
Whatever is done in the present age deserves blame.
Latin
non innovari homines per Baptismum, sed quasi innovari; non liberari, sed quasi liberari; non salvari, sed quasi salvari
Quidquid in praesenti saeculo agitur, esse culpandum
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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