To Florus 2.71
But lest I seem too unyielding with you here, let us agree that ‘until the law’ can be understood as ‘until Christ’ (Romans 5:13). You therefore concede that this sin which you call original does not exist after Christ. How, then, do you say that the devil’s work, the shrub of the hostile power and the law of sin, remains, flourishes, and lives in the apostles’ limbs and in all the baptized, even down to today, so many centuries after Christ’s coming?
Latin
Verum ne videar hic nimis tecum agere tenaciter, acquiescamus, quod usque ad legem [n107] usque ad Christum possit intellegi; concedis ergo peccatum hoc, quod dicis originale, non esse post Christum. Et quomodo et in Apostolorum membris et in omnibus baptizatis et usque hodie post tot saecula adventus Christi opus diaboli, fruticem adversariae potestatis, legemque peccati manere, vigere, vivere dicis?
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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