Direct quotation
Against Julian 3.2.7
He has spoken against himself. To defend himself, he said that the new heretics call him and his party condemners of marriage and of God’s work. Then he took that back by saying that God and the devil possess a newborn human being in half shares—or rather, that the devil possesses the whole person, with God completely excluded, as it were, from his entire possession, the human being.
Latin
Contra me ipsum locutum me fuisse: qui cum propter meam defensionem dixerim, ab haereticis novis dici nos damnatores esse nuptiarum, operisque divini, postea id abstulerim, dicendo in semis unciis possideri hominem nascentem a Deo et a diabolo, vel potius totum a diabolo possideri, prorsus excluso Deo velut ab universa sua possessione, quod est homo
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.