Reported argument with excerpts
Against Julian 5.3.8
Augustine reports that Julian argued flesh’s disobedience should instead be praised if it is punishment for sin, calling it ‘an avenger of wickedness, and in this God’s servant.’
Latin
carnis inoboedientiam inoboedienti homini dignissime retributam; quia iniustum erat ut obtemperaretur a servo suo, id est a corpore suo, ei qui non obtemperaverat Domino suo
hanc inoboedientiam carnis potius esse laudabilem, si poena peccati est
velut ultricem sceleris, et in hoc Dei ministram
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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