To Turbantius — fragments in Against Julian · §6-24-77

Julian quotation

Against Julian 6.24.77

But if he was speaking about the transmission of sin by descent, nowhere would it have been more appropriate for him to say, ‘Sin passed to all for this reason: because all were begotten through married people’s pleasure.’ He would have added, ‘It passes in this way: they flowed from the decaying flesh of the first man.’

Latin source witness