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I have certainly proceeded as the honesty of debate required.Careful investigation by reason has crushed what your argument established: that the evil will arose in God’s work because the human being had been created from nothing.It has shown that, with changed terms, you said the same thing Mani invented and believed: that the first sin too was generated by the violence of eternal darkness.
Egi certe, ut fidem disputationis decebat; illudque quod tu argumentando effeceras, id est, ideo in opere Dei ortam voluntatem malam quia fuisset homo creatus ex nihilo, ratio perscrutata contrivit; ostendens videlicet, te immutatis vocabulis idem dixisse, quod Manichaeus finxit et credidit, id est, primum quoque peccatum aeternarum tenebrarum violentia genitum.