Against Julian 4.3.27

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If someone says that the chastity of unbelievers is not chastity, with the same shamelessness one will say that pagans’ bodies are not bodies, that pagans’ eyes have no power to see, and that grain growing in pagans’ fields is not grain—and many other things so absurd that they can make people who understand laugh.

“The soul and body, and every good thing naturally implanted in soul and body, are God’s gifts even in sinners, since God made these things, not they themselves. But of the things they do it was said: Everything that is not from faith is sin” (Romans 14:23).

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Si dicatur - inquis - quia castitas infidelium castitas non est; eadem fronte dicetur quia corpus Paganorum corpus non sit, et oculi Paganorum sensum non habeant intuendi, et frumenta quae in Paganorum nascuntur agris, frumenta non sint; et multa - inquis - alia quae tantae absurditatis sunt, ut risum possint intellegentibus commovere

Anima enim et corpus et quaecumque bona animae et corporis naturaliter insita, etiam in peccatoribus dona Dei sunt: quoniam Deus, non ipsi ista fecerunt: de his autem quae faciunt dictum est: Omne quod non est ex fide, peccatum est

corpus Paganorum corpus non sit, et oculi Paganorum sensum non habeant intuendi, et frumenta quae in Paganorum nascuntur agris, frumenta non sint

Haec etiam in peccatoribus dona Dei sunt; quoniam Deus, non ipsi ista fecerunt; de his autem quae faciunt dictum est: Omne quod non est ex fide, peccatum est

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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.

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