Julian argument and allegation
Against Julian 6.23.71
It is contradictory for the person who says, ‘It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me,’ also to say, ‘I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh.’ (Galatians 2:20; Romans 7:18)
You make the apostle say these things as though he meant that, despite his resistance, some hand of deadly pleasure dragged him off to prostitutes.
Latin
contrarium
ut qui dicit: Vivo non ego iam, vivit vero in me Christus [n189] ; dicat etiam: Scio quia non habitat in me, hoc est in carne mea, bonum [n190]
Apostolum sic ista dixisse, quasi qui se vellet intellegi renitentem, in scorta aliqua manu pestiferae voluptatis abduci
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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