Direct quotation
Against Julian 3.1.2
We could not plead our case before those judges, because no one deliberates well about doubtful matters unless they come with a heart free from hatred, anger, and friendship. Those who judged our case were not like that: they began to hate it before they knew it.
If anyone says that human beings have free will or that God creates those who are born, they are called a Pelagian and a Caelestian.
Latin
Apud quos propterea - dicis - non potuisse vos agere causam vestram, quia nemode rebus dubiis bene consultat, nisi qui ab odio, ira et amicitia vacuum pectus attulerit; quales non fuisse - dicis - qui de causa vestra iudicaverunt, quia prius eam coeperunt odisse quam nosse
Si quis aut liberum in hominibus arbitrium, aut Deum esse nascentium conditorem dixerit, Pelagianus et Caelestianus vocatur
About this text
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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