Reported scriptural interpretation
Against Julian 6.18.57
Augustine reports that Julian interprets the following words differently from him: ‘He forgives all your iniquities; he heals all your illnesses.’ (Psalm 103:3; LXX/Vulgate Psalm 102:3)
Latin
Si ergo nolis esse contentiosus, puto quod iam videas quam recte intellegatur, quod aliter conaris exponere, quod propheta cum dixisset: Qui propitius fit omnibus iniquitatibus tuis [n157] ; quod fit utique remissione omnium peccatorum; continuo subiecit: Qui sanat omnes languores tuos [n158] ; ea mala volens intellegi, cum quibus donec sanentur, vel quantum possunt in hac vita magis magisque minuantur, non quiescunt intestina bella sanctorum. Neque enim nullus est languor, quo caro concupiscit adversus spiritum, etiam manente virtute castitatis invicta. Si nullus languor est, non ergo adversus eum spiritus concupiscat. Ad hoc enim concupiscit, ut si potest non certandi, saltem non consentiendi obtineat sanitatem. Hoc quippe unde nunc agimus, quod nobis resistere sentimus in nobis, aut aliena est natura separanda, aut nostra sananda. Si alienam dicimus separandam, Manichaeis favemus. Fateamur ergo nostram esse sanandam, ut Manichaeos simul Pelagianosque vitemus.
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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