To Florus 4.108
But the infants whom he says God makes he assigns to the enemy’s dominion. Thus he accuses not the demon’s work, whose ministers he clears of guilt, but God’s work, which the pleasure conscious of the devil’s gift could not reach. So this accuser of marital activity, yet absolver of lusts, this assailant of innocence and slanderer of divine fairness, did not fear to write: “I certainly say that they are under the devil because they were born from that union.” Seeing the wickedness of this statement laid bare, he tried to defend it by some authority, which he could not produce from Scripture, and added that Bishop Ambrose had thought the same. It is no surprise that he accuses the dead when he also accuses the harmless.
Latin
Parvulos vero, quos a Deo fieri dicit, dominio addicit inimici, sicque non opus daemonis arguit, cuius ministros absolvit a culpa; sed opus Dei, ad quod diabolici muneris conscia voluptas non potuit pervenire. Coniugalis ergo operis criminator, sed libidinum expiator, impugnator innocentiae, et divinae aequitatis infamator non timuit scribere: Dico plane, ideo illos esse sub diabolo, quia de illa commixtione sunt nati. Quod sententiae facinus cum nudatum videret, conatus illud aliqua auctoritate defendere, quam Scripturis proferre non poterat, subdidit etiam episcopum Ambrosium sensisse similiter. Non quidem mirum est quod criminatur et mortuos, cum criminatur innocuos.