Julian allegations and argument
Against Julian 5.16.60
When it serves married people for producing offspring, lust is then honored.
Using lust always entails guilt.
Adulterers sin less than married people, because lust serves married people so that they sin, while it commands adulterers.
If lust is evil, it binds married people whom it serves with greater guilt than adulterers whom it rules.
Latin
Cum servit coniugatis ad propagandam prolem, tunc honorari libidinem
Semper ad reatum pertinere uti libidine
minus peccare adulteros quam maritos; quia maritis - inquis - libido servit ut peccent, adulteris imperat
Libidinem, si mala est, maiori reatu obstringere quibus obsequitur coniuges, quam quibus dominatur adulteros
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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