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For in your words, the devil rightly plucks all who are born from desire as fruit from his own tree (compare Augustine, Marriage and Sexual Desire 1.26).You therefore revile us just as Mani does for maintaining that fleshly desire was created by God.
Tuis enim sermonibus omnes de concupiscentia natos diabolus quasi suae arboris fructus iure decerpit [n226] ; aeque igitur blasphemas ut Manichaeus, qui concupiscentiam carnis a Deo conditam vindicemus.