Direct quotation
Against Julian 3.23.53
When adulterers conceive a child, a human being is born from the power of the seed, not from the shamefulness of the wrongdoing.
The most false part of his position is the statement: “The goodness of marriage cannot be accused on account of the original evil derived from it.”
If evil is derived from it, it can be accused and cannot be excused.
Every cause of evil is without good.
Latin
Quando adulteri gignunt, nascitur homo de virtute seminum, non de turpitudine flagitiorum
sententiae meae pars falsissima est, qua dixi: Nuptiarum bonum malo originali, quod inde trahitur, non potest accusari
Si malum inde trahitur, accusari potest, excusari non potest
omnem causam mali esse expertem boni
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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