Against Julian 4.8.51

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If someone commits murder while their conscience is afraid, they are guilty because they were afraid. But if they commit some crime with triumphant boldness, as though believing that they do their evil deed from faith, they escape guilt.

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Latin

Si quis homicidium conscientia formidante commiserit, reus est, quia timuit; si autem aliquod facinus exsultante perpetrarit audacia, velut credens se ex fide facere quod male facit, evasit culpam

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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.

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Copy-text Augustine, Against Julian (Latin · Excerpts arranged by Augustine’s books)

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