To Florus 4.97

Again, there is a large difference between the propositions. You said, “There is no offense without will,” and answered, “But there is an offense through one person’s will.” Does the following reply, introduced by a preposition taking the accusative case, agree with the earlier definition, secured by a preposition taking the ablative case? The question was whether a crime could exist without will, and it had been established that it could not. You added that sin entered through one man. Yet the issue was not through what it began, but without what it could not exist.