Direct quotation
Against Julian 4.8.49
The joining of married people’s sexual organs is evil.
Its offense goes unpunished through religion.
“Let us do evil so that good may come” (Romans 3:8).
In Christian spouses, do you call the pleasure of intercourse chastity or unchastity?
Latin
Coniugalium membrorum malum esse consertum
crimen eius
impunitum fit per religionem
utrum in coniugibus christianis conventuum voluptatem, pudicitiam, an impudicitiam nominem
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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