To Florus · §4.118 · Julian of Eclanum

To Florus 4.118

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Sensible men, catholic bishops, would undoubtedly agree to this conclusion. They would see that no one other than the true God had made anything in the flesh’s sensations or the offspring of the sexes; that God had made nothing evil; and that evil is nothing other than an evil will sinning without any compulsion from nature. They would surely pronounce that Manichaeans and advocates of inherited sin had been shattered by the shining thunderbolts of catholic reasoning.

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Huic effecto sine dubio prudentes viri catholici annuerent sacerdotes, videntesque nihil in sensibus carnis, nihil in fetibus sexuum, alterum quempiam praeter Deum verum fecisse; nihil autem Deum fecisse quod malum esset; malumque nihil esse aliud quam voluntatem malam, sine aliquo coactu naturalium delinquentem; pronuntiarent profecto Manichaeos et Traducianos splendentibus catholicae rationis dissiluisse fulminibus.