Julian quotation
Against Julian 5.3.9
If lust is punishment for sin, chastity must be cast aside, lest chastity, rebelling against God, be said to weaken the sentence he imposed.
Latin
Si libido poena peccati est, abiciendam esse pudicitiam, ne rebellis in Deum castitas illatam ab eo dicatur enervare sententiam
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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