To Florus 6.5

Against us, Mani believes mortals are driven by nature into shameful acts and crimes. He supposes the origin of darkness supplied the material both for bodies and for crimes; that sexual pleasure is the corruption of the human race, the vindication of the devil’s claim, and the force driving people into every dishonor. The advocate of inherited sin follows him in every way, as his heir and offspring, repeatedly proclaiming natural crimes, an eternal necessity of evil arising from dark nothingness, and an affection assigned to the senses that pollutes all the saints and places God’s image in the devil’s kingdom.