Julian quotation
Against Julian 5.11.45
The ancient holy fathers did not devote themselves to producing offspring with the intention of generating guilty children to be cleansed by baptism, because the baptism through which we are now adopted had not yet been instituted.
Latin
eos non hoc intuitu operam dedisse propagini, ut tamquam reos gignerent filios Baptismate diluendos, eo quod Baptisma quo nunc adoptamur nondum fuerat institutum
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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