Direct quotation
Against Julian 4.13.64
When the apostle John said, “Everything in the world is the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and worldly ambition, which is not from the Father but from the world” (1 John 2:16), he was not condemning this world—that is, heaven and earth and all the things that substantially exist in it, the world made by the Father through the Son.
[The desire of the flesh that is not from the Father] should be understood as excess.
Latin
Ioannem apostolum, non mundum istum, id est, caelum et terram, et omnia quae in eo substantialiter sunt, qui mundus factus est a Patre per Filium, reprehendisse, cum diceret: Omnia quae in mundo sunt, concupiscentia carnis est, et concupiscentia oculorum, et ambitio saeculi; quae non est a Patre, sed ex mundo est [n114]
concupiscentiam carnis dixerit a Patre non esse
luxuriam intellegendam esse
Non est ipsa quam laudo
Luxuria
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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