Direct quotation
Against Julian 3.18.34
Married people conceived without bodily warmth.
God did not make the human being; or he made the human being for the devil; or the devil made the human being.
Isaac too was formed from that same pleasure of sexual desire.
The hand of divine providence is at work even in the sexual organs of sinners.
Latin
coniuges sine corporum calore generaverint
hominem Deus non fecerit, aut diabolo fecerit, aut diabolus fecerit
ex eadem concupiscentiae voluptate concretum etiam Isaac
Peccatorum quoque genitalibus manum divinae providentiae interesse
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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