To Florus 3.175
‘Whether through sight, touch, hearing, smell, or taste. Remove, then, the root of this evil stock, and immediately you see yourself as spiritual. For Scripture says: “Desire is the root of all evils” (Romans 7:23)’ (compare 1 Timothy 6:10).
You see in what spirit and for what doctrine Mani attacks fleshly desire, calling it the law of sin: if it were removed from bodies, his daughter, to whom he writes, would see that she had become spiritual. Let us hear which statements of the apostle he tries to use to establish this opinion: ‘“The flesh opposes the spirit,” because it is the daughter of desire; “and the spirit the flesh,” because it is the son of the soul’ (Galatians 5:17).
Latin
Sive per visum sive per tactum sive per auditum sive per odoratum sive per gus tum. Tolle denique malignae huius stirpis radicem et statim te ipsam spiritalem contemplaris. " Radix enim - ait Scriptura - omnium malorum concupiscentia " [n213] . Vides, quo spiritu et propter quod dogma Manichaeus concupiscentiam carnis incessat hanc dicens legem esse peccati, quae si a corporibus auferretur, spiritalem se filia eius, ad quam scribit, factam videret. Quam opinionem quibus Apostoli nitatur confirmare sententiis audiamus: " Caro enim adversatur spiritui ", quia filia concupiscentiae est, " et spiritus carni " [n214] , quia filius animae est.