Direct quotation
Against Julian 3.26.60
Infants belong to the good of fruitfulness, which God’s blessing established before the disease of desire, not to the disease of desire itself, if that arose afterward when people sinned. Therefore holiness must be ascribed to those born, and guilt to those who conceive them.
Latin
Ad bonum fecunditatis parvulos pertinere, quae Dei benedictione ante morbum libidinis instituta est; non ad ipsum libidinis morbum, si postea peccantibus accidit; atque ideo sanctitatem adscribendam esse nascentibus, et generantibus culpam
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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