Julian accusation with literary echo
Against Julian 6.8.22
You tried to stir up the crowd against me.
Forgetting our single combat, you took refuge in the crowd.
With a treaty offered, it was agreed to settle the war, so that our contest would decide everyone’s battles.
Latin
Me vulgum tibi excitare conatum
Fidem non dubitare christianam, quam novi haeretici oppugnare coeperunt, et eos qui lavacro regenerationis abluuntur, redimi de diaboli potestate; et eos qui nondum tali regeneratione redempti sunt, etiam parvulos filios redemptorum, sub eiusdem diaboli esse potestate captivos, nisi et ipsi eadem gratia redimantur
Ad omnes aetates - dixi - pertinere illud, de quo Apostolus loquitur, beneficium Dei: Qui eruit nos de potestate tenebrarum, et transtulit in regnum Filii caritatis suae [n73]
Quod certaminis singularis oblitus in vulgum refugerim
Oblato
placuit componi foedere bellum [n74] , ut pugnas omnium contentio nostra dirimeret
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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