To Turbantius — fragments in Against Julian · §3.9.18 · Julian of Eclanum

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Against Julian 3.9.18

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The good God, through whom everything was made, himself formed the parts of our body.

He who made bodies also distinguished the sexes. He made them different in form in order to join them in action; the difference between their organs supplied the reason for their union.

Therefore the union of bodies comes from the same source as bodies themselves.

Once you have conceded this, however unwillingly, it follows that so many good things—bodies, sexes, unions—cannot have evil fruits.

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Deus - inquis - bonus, per quem facta sunt omnia, ipse corporis nostri membra formavit

Qui autem corpora fecerat, divisit et sexum: divisit in specie, quod in operatione coniungeret; fecitque causam coniunctionum dissimilitudo membrorum

Ab ipso igitur commixtio corporum, a quo est origo corporum

Quod cum ingratis, - inquis - concesseris, sequitur tot rerum bonarum, corporum, sexuum, coniunctionum, malos fructus esse non posse