To Florus 2.62

Although the truth has already played its part here, I nevertheless urge the reader to pay attention. In this contest I have surrendered a great deal of what I was entitled to claim. Following where my opponent’s rashness challenged me, I have defended the teachings of sound faith to this extent: even if the Teacher of the Gentiles had used the words the advocate of inherited sin supposed him to have used, it would still be clear that he meant nothing about natural sin. Naming a human being, but one, he would certainly have blamed examples of guilt, not its generation.