Direct quotation
Against Julian 3.17.33
But from this digression, into which the force of grief carried me, I return to what I had begun.
He who made the first human being from dust forms everyone from seed.
The defense of natural sin is strangled in these snares.
Latin
Sed ab hoc digressu, quo te impetus
doloris
abstulerat, ad ea quae institueras
ille, qui primum hominem fecit ex pulvere, omnes fabricetur ex semine
ullis laqueis tuis peccati naturalis suffocatur assertio
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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