To Florus 3.96

But let us return to the book he addressed to Valerius, in which he selected statements from just one of my books for discussion and refutation. In the first book of the present work I had reached those statements of Augustine where his shamelessness was uncovered. Trying to escape the odium of an opinion that would seem to make the devil humanity’s creator, he declared that God is the author of evils and himself creates a substance of such a character that it incurs guilt before it acquires the use of reason, and is placed in the devil’s kingdom by its Creator’s hands.