Direct quotation
Against Julian 4.7.38
Demons instituted marriage.
They instituted the union of seed between the two sexes.
Marital intercourse for the purpose of conceiving children is the devil’s work.
Demons would catch married people in intercourse and, finding them engaged in their own work, would not allow them to conceive children who were to be freed by rebirth.
Latin
Daemones instituisse connubium
seminalem sexus utriusque mixtionem
diabolicum opus esse causa generandi concubitum coniugum
quod
deprehendant daemones in concubitu coniugatos, et tamquam in sua operatione deprehensos, non sinant generare filios regeneratione liberandos
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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