To Florus · §4.108

To Florus 4.108

But the infants whom he says God makes he assigns to the enemy’s dominion. Thus he accuses not the demon’s work, whose ministers he clears of guilt, but God’s work, which the pleasure conscious of the devil’s gift could not reach. So this accuser of marital activity, yet absolver of lusts, this assailant of innocence and slanderer of divine fairness, did not fear to write: “I certainly say that they are under the devil because they were born from that union.” Seeing the wickedness of this statement laid bare, he tried to defend it by some authority, which he could not produce from Scripture, and added that Bishop Ambrose had thought the same. It is no surprise that he accuses the dead when he also accuses the harmless.

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