Julian quoting augustine
Against Julian 4.9.53
“Were not the first spouses, whose marriage God blessed by saying, ‘Increase and multiply’ (Genesis 1:28), naked and unashamed (Genesis 2:25)? Why, then, did shame about those organs follow sin, unless an indecent movement arose there, which marriage would certainly not have had if human beings had not sinned?”
Latin
Nonne illi coniuges primi, quorum nuptias benedixit Deus, dicens: Crescite et multiplicamini [n103] , nudi erant, et non confundebantur [n104] ? Cur ergo ex illis membris confusio post peccatum, nisi quia exstitit illic indecens motus, quem, nisi homines peccassent, procul dubio nuptiae non haberent?
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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