Julian quotation
Against Julian 6.20.64
‘Greater’ and ‘lesser’ belong to the defined category of quantity. But quantity is not only incapable of receiving contraries—which it has in common with quality and other categories—it also has no contrary, which it has in common with the definition of substance. Good and evil, however, are contraries.
Latin
Qui miratur quia creatura Dei subditur diabolo, non miretur; subditur enim creatura Dei creaturae Dei, minor maiori
minor maiori
Quia maior et minor ad finitam speciem pertinet quantitatis? Sed quantitas - inquis - non solum contrariorum capax non est, quod ei cum qualitate atque aliis praedicamentis; verum etiam nec contrarium habet, quod ei cum substantiae est definitione commune: bonum vero et malum contraria sunt
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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