Julian quotation
Against Julian 6.24.77
But if he was speaking about the transmission of sin by descent, nowhere would it have been more appropriate for him to say, ‘Sin passed to all for this reason: because all were begotten through married people’s pleasure.’ He would have added, ‘It passes in this way: they flowed from the decaying flesh of the first man.’
Latin
Sed - inquis - si de peccati traduce loquebatur, nusquam congruentius diceret: Ideo pertransiit peccatum, quia omnes sunt de coniugum voluptate generati; et adderet: In eo transit, in quo ex tabida primi hominis carne fluxerunt
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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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