To Florus 4.64

You therefore see that you vainly called it a sin to acknowledge that a covering must be applied to these works God made: our Lord instituted this as humanity’s maker and practiced it when he became human. May reverence for the Redeemer grant pardon because, to defend the truth of the mystery and destroy the Manichaeans’ wickedness, I speak boldly of his flesh. Unless faith demanded it, restrained reverence would not touch this subject.