Against Julian 6.9.24

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Explain how sin can justly be charged to a person who neither wished nor was able to sin.

How can an act of choice be mixed into the condition of reproductive seed?

In what way did it happen?

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Latin

Explica - inquis - quomodo peccatum personae illi iuste possit adscribi, quae nec voluit peccare, nec potuit

Qui fieri potest - inquis - ut res arbitrii condicioni seminum misceatur?

quo sit factum modo

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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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