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We argue against these things every day. We refuse to agree with those who do wrong, because we say that…
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We argue against these things every day. We refuse to agree with those who do wrong, because we say that free will belongs to everyone by nature and could not have been destroyed by Adam's sin. The authority of all the Scriptures confirms this.
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About this text Julian wrote in the early 400s, in the fight over Pelagius. This is later than the first three centuries of the church.
Fragments attributed to Julian; descriptions of opponents’ teaching are not his positive creed. Open the Latin source witness on each section.
Julian of Eclanum (c. 386–c. 455) was bishop of Eclanum in southern Italy until 418, when he was deposed and exiled for refusing to condemn Pelagius. The most learned Pelagian controversialist, he pursued Augustine across a decade of pamphlet war.
None of Julian's works survives directly; what remains is preserved in the long quotations of Augustine, who answered him book by book. Reconstructed from those hostile pages, Julian emerges as a formidable defender of free will, marriage, and the goodness of creation.
Edition Against Two Letters of the Pelagians I
Fragments attributed to Julian in Against Two Letters of the Pelagians I. Descriptions of opponents’ teaching are not his positive creed.
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