To Florus 3.52

But if, unable to endure truth’s clamorous protest, you try to escape elsewhere, you will fall into stronger nets. Suppose you say: The prophet’s pronouncement that relatives are not burdened with each other’s faults is indeed true concerning adults; concerning infants, however, it lies in the part saying they are not guilty of their parents’ crimes, but does not lie in the part asserting that they gain no assistance from their parents’ virtues. Then you will openly display a most disgraceful appetite—not for argument but invention, not for eloquence but mere talk, not the appetite of a sane person but of a Manichaean losing his mind. You would be imagining yourself free to reject whatever you please and accept whatever delights you, against plain reason, God’s honor, examples, the testimony of commands, and the explanation of judgments.