To Florus 3.23

Although the extent of this irreverence is glaringly obvious as soon as it is mentioned, let us—with the permission of the very God whose fairness we defend—consider its character, even through a brief examination. What forces him to become a violator of his own law: the pressure of circumstances that overwhelm him, or his own weakness? Or, since it is neither, is it simply a desire to do wrong? But even Mani could not say this, and so he invented a story that your god had endured a terrible battle.