Direct quotation
Against Julian 4.6.36
He has said, in a ridiculous contradiction, that some are guilty from a good act and others holy from an evil act.
“Unbelievers turn the good of marriage into evil and sin by using it without faith; in the same way, believers’ marriages turn the evil of desire to a righteous use.”
Latin
Ridenda contrarietate me dixisse
alios reos ex bono, alios sanctos ex malo opere
nuptiarum bonum homines infideles infideliter utendo, in malum peccatumque convertere; eoque modo concupiscentiae malum convertere fidelium nuptias in usum iustitiae
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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