To Florus 2.224
He was, of course, speaking to living people and telling them that righteousness had been conferred on them through the mysteries. How, then, does he say someone is justified whom he calls dead, unless he is showing beyond ambiguity that here he calls renunciation ‘death’? He adopts the name of death to show that believers should cease from sins as dead people cease from activities.
Latin
Nempe cum viventibus loquebatur et his dicebat iustitiam per mysteria fuisse collatam. Quomodo ergo ait eum iustificatum esse, quem mortuum, nisi quia sine aliquo ostendit ambiguo mortem hic abrenuntiationem vocare et ideo a se nomen mortis assumi, ut ostendat ita fideles a peccatis sicut mortuos ab actibus debere cessare?
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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