Direct quotation
Against Julian 4.3.15
A person is helped to attain perfection.
A human being is stirred toward something praiseworthy by the impulses of a noble heart.
Human nature is good, since it deserves the help of such grace.
I thought he called the achievement of the human will heavenly gifts.
Latin
ad capessendam perfectionem adiuvatur
hominem - sicut loqueris - ad aliquid laudabile generosi cordis stimulis incitari
Bonam - dicis - hominum naturam, quae talis gratiae opitulationem meretur
effectum voluntatis humanae dona caelestia me
nuncupasse
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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