Direct quotation
Against Julian 4.9.54
In the fact that the first human beings, ashamed after their sin, covered the organs where desire is present, he found a way to persuade people that God had established marriages made of air.
That without which nature does not exist is not natural.
Latin
In hoc quod post peccatum primi homines erubescentes membra illa, in quibus est libido, texerunt, invenisse me unde persuaderem, Deum aeria constituisse coniugia
naturale non esse sine quo natura non est
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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