Julian quotation
Against Julian 6.19.61
Everything belonging to this class can be demonstrated by this one example. If someone has sacrificed to idols once, he can be burdened by the impiety of what he has done until he obtains forgiveness: the act has ended, but its guilt remains. But it is absolutely impossible for the act to remain and the guilt to depart—that is, for him to go on sacrificing to demons and yet be regarded as free from profanation.
Latin
Quidquid ad hoc genus pertinet, de isto uno posse monstrari; quoniam si semel aliquis idolis sacrificaverit, potest, donec consequatur veniam, premi impietate commissi, et manet reatus actione finita. Nullo autem pacto - inquis - fieri potest ut maneat actio, et abscedebat reatus; id est, ut daemonibus - inquis - sacrificare non desinat, et tamen liber a profanitate videatur
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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.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Augustine, Against Julian (Latin · Excerpts arranged by Augustine’s books)
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