Free will is denied if grace is praised; and, in turn, grace is denied if free will is praised. When those…

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Free will is denied if grace is praised; and, in turn, grace is denied if free will is praised.

When those books themselves begin to be examined, the ungodliness of those statements will be exposed and pierced.

Latin

Negari liberum arbitrium, si gratia commendetur; et iterum negari gratiam, si liberum commendetur arbitrium

Ista - inquam - quaestio ubi de arbitrio voluntatis et Dei gratia disputatur, ita est ad discernendum, difficilis, ut quando defenditur liberum arbitrium, negari Dei gratia videatur; quando autem asseritur Dei gratia, liberum arbitrium putetur auferri, et cetera

negari liberum arbitrium, si gratia commendetur; et negari gratiam, si liberum commendetur arbitrium

videatur

putetur

Negari gratiam

ut negari gratia videatur

Negari arbitrium liberum, vel auferri

Ut putetur auferri

Cum libri ipsi ventilari coeperint, quod abs te illa sententiarum mearum et nudabitur et confodietur impietas

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Julian’s earlier work To Turbantius, in four books, survives only in the excerpts Augustine quotes in his six-book reply, Against Julian. The excerpts are grouped here by those six books. Latin source text is on each section when recovered.

Julian of Eclanum (c. 386–c. 455) was bishop of Eclanum in southern Italy until 418, when he was deposed and exiled for refusing to condemn Pelagius. The most learned Pelagian controversialist, he pursued Augustine across a decade of pamphlet war.

None of Julian's works survives directly; what remains is preserved in the long quotations of Augustine, who answered him book by book. Reconstructed from those hostile pages, Julian emerges as a formidable defender of free will, marriage, and the goodness of creation.

English follows Julian’s words as Augustine excerpts them in Against Julian. This is not a recovered complete To Turbantius.

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Translated from Augustine, Against Julian (Latin · Excerpts arranged by Augustine’s books)

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