Direct quotation
Against Julian 3.26.59
If, before sin, God created that from which human beings would be born, while the devil supplied what would stir their parents, holiness is certainly to be ascribed to those born, and guilt to those who conceive them.
Latin
Si ante peccatum - inquis - per Deum creatum est unde homines nascerentur, per diabolum autem unde parentes commoverentur; adscribitur sine dubio sanctitas nascentibus, et culpa generantibus
Parentes commoverentur
Fieret sine isto morbo seminatio filiorum in corpore vitae illius, sine quo nunc fieri non potest in corpore mortis huius
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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