To Florus 3.199

Where, then, do you and Mani differ in your judgment of nature? ‘He admits it is evil,’ you say. If you deny that, then pronounce it good, and the dispute is over. Truth’s nets will immediately catch you for salvation. But you protest. Let us hear what you bring forth, Aristotle of the Carthaginians! ‘So much evil exists within it,’ you say, ‘that the devil possesses it and it deserves eternal fire.’