To Florus 3.141
Everything you have published against us rushes toward one goal: persuading us that natural things are evil and that either the devil creates humans or God creates crimes. Still, I think brevity will gain something if I gather from different places into one account the chief arguments with which, when you wrap yourself in obscurity, you think you defend your whole opinion. I will first help them by an explanation, making clear what they attempt; then I will overthrow them, gathered rather than scattered, unfolded rather than tangled.
Latin
Unde quamvis omnia, quae contra nos edidisti, scripta ad unum finem properent, videlicet ut naturalia mala esse persuadeas et aut diabolum hominum aut Deum criminum conditorem, tamen puto aliquid procedere ad studium brevitatis, si ea potissimum argumenta, quibus totam opinionem tuam tueri te, cum obumbraris, putas, de diversis in unum partibus congregavero eaque prius admota expositione iuvero, ut, quid conentur, appareat, post vero non sparsa, sed collecta, non involuta, sed explicata proruero.