Direct quotation
Against Julian 2.1.2
The devil creates them, if they are created from the wound the devil inflicted on human nature as it was first made. Marriage is condemned if it is believed to contain something from which people deserving condemnation are born. Nor are all sins forgiven in baptism if some evil remains in baptized married couples, from which evil people are born. And how is God not unjust, if he forgives baptized people their own sins, yet condemns an infant because, when created by him, the infant unknowingly and unwillingly inherited other people’s sins—even from parents whose sins had been forgiven? Nor can virtue, whose opposite is understood to be vice, be thought capable of perfection: it is incredible that inborn faults could be destroyed. Indeed, these should no longer even be counted as faults. Someone who cannot be anything other than what they were created to be is not sinning.
Latin
Nos asserendo originale peccatum, diabolum dicere hominum nascentium conditorem, damnare nuptias, negare in Baptismo dimitti universa peccata, Deum crimine iniquitatis arguere, desperationem perfectionis ingerere
Diabolus enim creat - dicis - si ex hoc vulnere creantur, quod diabolus naturae, quae primum condita est, inflixit humanae: et damnantur nuptiae, si aliquid unde damnabiles generantur, habere creduntur: nec omnia peccata dimittuntur in Baptismo, si aliquod in baptizatis coniugibus remanet malum, ex quo generentur mali. Quemadmodum autem non est iniquus Deus, qui cum baptizatis remittat peccata propria, parvulum damnat, quia cum ab illo crearetur, nesciens nec volens etiam ex illis parentibus, quibus remissa fuerant, traxit aliena? Nec virtus, cui vitiositas intellegitur esse contraria, posse creditur perfici; quia ingenerata vitia incredibile est posse consumi: quae iam nec vitia deputanda sunt. Non enim peccat, qui non potest aliud esse quam creatus est
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Earlier four-book work to Turbantius, surviving as excerpts arranged by Augustine’s witness. Latin source text is on each section when recovered.
English follows Julian’s words as Augustine excerpts them in Against Julian. This is not a recovered complete To Turbantius.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Augustine, Against Julian (Latin · Excerpts arranged by Augustine’s books)
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