Julian excerpt in the intermediary document
Marriage 2.3.7
Most blessed brother, the teachers of our time, the authors of the wicked upheaval that still rages, have decided to bring insult and ruin upon the men whose holy efforts burn them, even at the cost of the ruin of the whole church. They do not understand how much honor they have given those men: they have shown that their glory could not be torn down without tearing down the catholic religion with it. For if anyone says that human beings have free will or that God creates those who are born, they are called a Caelestian and a Pelagian. So, to avoid being called heretics, people become Manichaeans. While fearing a false accusation, they fall into a real offense. They are like wild animals surrounded by feathers so that they can be driven into nets: lacking reason, empty fear pushes them into real destruction.
Latin
Nunc ad ea, quae sicut voluit nostra proposuit, quae sua opposuerit videamus. Sequuntur enim iam verba eius et, sicut iste insinuavit, qui tibi chartulam misit, prius aliquid de praefatione conscripsit procul dubio librorum illorum de quibus pauca decerpsit. Id autem ita sese habet: "Doctores - inquit - nostri temporis, frater beatissime, et nefariae quae adhuc fervet seditionis auctores ad hominum, quorum sanctis studiis uruntur, contumelias et exitium decreverunt per ruinam totius Ecclesiae pervenire; non intellegentes quantum his contulerint honoris, quorum ostenderunt gloriam nisi cum cattolica religione non potuisse convelli. Nam si quis aut liberum in hominibus arbitrium aut Deum esse nascentium conditorem dixerit, Caelestianus et Pelagianus vocatur. Ne igitur vocentur haeretici, fiunt Manichaei, et dum falsam verentur infamiam, verum crimen incurrunt; instar ferarum, quae circumdantur pennis, ut cogantur in retia, quibus quoniam deest ratio, in verum exitium vana formidine contruduntur".
About this text
Intermediary extracts Augustine answered in Book Two — compiler framing labeled where needed. Latin context is on each section when recovered.
English follows the extracts Augustine answered in On Marriage and Concupiscence II. Compiler framing is labeled where needed.
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- Copy-text Augustine, On Marriage and Concupiscence II (Latin · Extracts of Julian)
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