Direct quotation
Against Julian 4.8.47
Free will is denied if grace is praised; and, in turn, grace is denied if free will is praised.
When those books themselves begin to be examined, the ungodliness of those statements will be exposed and pierced.
Latin
Negari liberum arbitrium, si gratia commendetur; et iterum negari gratiam, si liberum commendetur arbitrium
Ista - inquam - quaestio ubi de arbitrio voluntatis et Dei gratia disputatur, ita est ad discernendum, difficilis, ut quando defenditur liberum arbitrium, negari Dei gratia videatur; quando autem asseritur Dei gratia, liberum arbitrium putetur auferri, et cetera
negari liberum arbitrium, si gratia commendetur; et negari gratiam, si liberum commendetur arbitrium
videatur
putetur
Negari gratiam
ut negari gratia videatur
Negari arbitrium liberum, vel auferri
Ut putetur auferri
Cum libri ipsi ventilari coeperint, quod abs te illa sententiarum mearum et nudabitur et confodietur impietas
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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