To Florus 2.120
You have therefore confessed that grace operates one way in older people and another in younger ones. Do not imagine any room remains for your answer if you add that the difference is indeed great, but concerns the remission of sins, so that it still finds a sin to forgive, even if only one. This argument advances nothing. It does not matter under what heading you acknowledge different effects of one grace, provided you acknowledge that its effects can differ.
Latin
Confessus es ergo aliter operari gratiam in maioribus, aliter in minoribus. Nec quidquam putes responsioni tuae relictum loci, si inferas magnam quidem, sed in remissione peccatorum esse distantiam, ut, etsi unum peccatum, tamen inveniat, quod remittat. Verum nihil hac argumentatione promoves; neque enim refert, in qua specie varios unius gratiae fatearis effectus, dummodo varios posse esse fateare.
About this text
Julian’s six preserved books to Florus, quoted section by section in Augustine’s unfinished reply. Augustine’s refutations are omitted. Latin of Julian’s words is on each section.
Julian’s own books do not survive as a separate manuscript. English follows his words as Augustine quotes them in the Unfinished Work Against Julian. Augustine’s replies are omitted. We do not restore a Julian text independent of Augustine.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Augustine, Unfinished Work Against Julian (Latin · Julian’s words as quoted, Books 1–6)
- Checked print Augustinus.it Latin of the Unfinished Work (Latin · Same work)
- Checked print Migne PL 45 (Latin · Hard cases)
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