To Florus 5.40

Since this great point was so plain, what persuaded you to believe that the violence of ancient nothing was the cause of an evil will? Certainly it was so that we could understand that you believe everything made from nothing guilty and enslave the whole world to the devil. Since it has become clear to me that your ancient doctrinal agreement remains, I now answer you and Mani together. You ask me, who deny that evil has a nature, to answer if I can: where could the evil will itself arise in the first human being? I reply that you do not understand what you are saying. For will is nothing other than a movement of the mind under no compulsion.