To Florus 4.105
After this reply, he tries to wash away another point on which I had struck him. For after asking about infants’ will, I continued: “But you deny this”—that is, that a sinful will is present in newborn people—“and nevertheless say infants are under the devil. Nor do you conceal why you think they live under his power. You say, ‘Because they are born from the union of the two sexes, they are under the hostile power.’” The testimony of his own words therefore made it plain that he claims infants for the demon because they were born from the union of the two sexes. Through this I showed that he had enslaved marriage to the devil, although God instituted it and it cannot exist without union.
Latin
Post hanc vero responsionem aliud ubi a me pulsatus fuerat, deluere conatur. Ego quippe postquam de parvulorum voluntate requisiveram, secutus sum: Sed negas hoc, id est voluntatem peccatricem inesse nascentibus, et dicis tamen esse sub diabolo parvulos, nec dissimulas per quid eos degere sub potestate illius arbitreris; ais quippe: Quia de sexus utriusque commixtione nascuntur, sub adversaria sunt potestate. Dictorum eius itaque testimonio patuit, ob hoc illum parvulos daemoni vindicare, quia de sexus utriusque fuerant commixtione prognati; per quod docui, illum nuptias quae a Deo institutae sunt, quae sine commixtione esse non possunt, diabolo mancipasse.