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Against those who condemn marriage and assign its fruits to the devil (Genesis 4:1).
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Against those who condemn marriage and assign its fruits to the devil (Genesis 4:1 ).
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Latin Quae sequuntur ergo, ita praenotavit qui tuae dilectioni chartulam misit: "Contra eos - inquit - qui nuptias damnant, et fructus earum diabolo assignant". Non igitur contra nos, qui neque nuptias damnamus, quas etiam in ordine suo debita praedicatione laudamus; nec earum fructus diabolo adsignamus; fructus quippe nuptiarum homines sunt, qui ordinate inde generantur, non peccata, cum quibus nascuntur. Nec ideo sunt homines sub diabolo, quia homines sunt, ubi sunt fructus nuptiarum, sed quia peccatores sunt, ubi est propago vitiorum; diabolus enim culpae auctor est, non naturae.
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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.
Intermediary extracts Augustine answered in Book Two — compiler framing labeled where needed. Latin context is on each section when recovered.
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.
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