Direct quotation
Against Julian 4.8.50
If, because of this evil of desire, guilty offspring are brought forth even from Christian spouses, it follows that virgin chastity brings happiness. And since it is found among the ungodly, unbelievers raised high by the virtue of chastity surpass Christians polluted by the stain of desire.
Among them, faith allows crime to go unpunished.
Latin
Sed si propter hoc - inquis - libidinis malum, etiam de coniugibus christianis proles criminosa profertur, sequitur ut pudicitia virginalis sit felicitatis illatrix: et quia in impiis invenitur - inquis - antecellunt infideles pudicitiae virtute sublimes, christianis libidinis tabe pollutis
apud eos
propter fidem exercetur impunitas criminis
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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