Direct quotation
Against Julian 4.14.65
It follows that we must confess that our senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch were given to us by the devil rather than by God, if we concede that the desire of the flesh against which we struggle through self-restraint was not in paradise before sin, but arose from the first sin which the devil persuaded the first human being to commit.
Latin
Consequens enim esse - existimas - ut sensum videndi, audiendi, gustandi, olfaciendi, atque tangendi, non a Deo, sed a diabolo nobis fateamur esse collatum; si concesserimus eam concupiscentiam carnis, cui per continentiam repugnamus, non fuisse in paradiso ante peccatum, et ex illo accidisse peccato, quod primum primo homini diabolus persuasiti
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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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