Julian excerpts and scriptural passages discussed
Against Julian 5.3.10
‘God handed them over to a depraved mind, to do what is unfitting’ (Romans 1:28).
When he attacked the crimes of the ungodly, he heightened them by using the language of punishments. Showing how deeply his heart, the dwelling of every virtue, recoiled from their shamefulness, he said that such people seemed to him not so much guilty as condemned.
How should we understand God’s handing people over? He hands them over by abandoning them.
‘They exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible humanity, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles. Therefore God handed them over in the desire of their heart to uncleanness’ (Romans 1:23–24).
Latin
esse nonnulla peccata quae poenae sint etiam peccatorum
Tradidit illos Deus in reprobum sensum, ut faciant quae non conveniunt
Cum inveheretur - inquis - in impiorum crimina, poenarum ea nominibus aggravavit, quantumque pectori suo virtutum omnium domicilio turpitudo horreret ostendens, non tam reos quam damnatos sibi tales ait videri
Quomodo intellegendus sit tradere Deus
eum tradere deserendo
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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