To Florus 6.33

The outstanding teacher built his argument with great force and gave us hope through our shared condition with the Mediator. He maintained that this man, as regards the substance by which he is joined to us, possessed no exemption, and that the opinion adopted by unbelief could prejudice Christ no less than us. He therefore joins Christ’s case and humanity’s so closely that what is judged in one must necessarily be believed in the other.

At that time people had thought there would be no resurrection of the dead, yet they did not deny that Christ had risen. The Teacher of the Gentiles seizes this and pronounces that both sides must be open to the same judgment: either all humans are to rise, or Christ must be believed not to have risen. The apostle certainly would not have this argumentative force if, according to the Manichaeans and their disciples who teach inherited sin, he separated Christ’s flesh from participation in our nature.