Direct quotation
Against Julian 4.2.7
I will strike at the other side of his definition.
If sexual warmth, the servant of honorable marriage, is restrained from excessive outbursts both by the effort of believers and by the power of the gift, and is curbed rather than extinguished by grace, it is commendable in its kind and within its proper measure; only its excesses are blameworthy.
Latin
Pulsas - ut dicis - alterum definitionis meae latus
Si calor genitalis coniugalis honestatis minister ab immoderatis procursibus tam studio fidelium, quam doni virtute retinetur, nec exstinguitur per gratiam, sed frenatur: probabilis est in genere suo et in modo suo, et solis accusatur excessibus
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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