To Florus 4.76

I, however, find nothing to admire in my own talent because I understand that sin cannot exist without will, bodies without God, bodily sensations without bodies, marriage without union, or newborn people without God’s activity. And I hold as certain that what is proved unjust is not divine, and what is divine cannot be proved unjust. It is no less plain than these things that imputing one person’s sins to others who were not even there, much less consenting, is unjust. Enlightened by these suns, I am entirely justified in looking down on the Manichaeans’ caves. They think either that sin can exist without will, or that God does not make human beings, or that bodily sensation belongs to one author and bodies to another. They suppose either that someone weighed down by charges of injustice is God, or that the eternal creator of all can be charged with the crime of injustice, or that even a shadow of justice remains when one person’s acts of will are attached to another person’s birth. Accordingly, I assess the merits of the opposing sides by their causes, not by their talents.