To Turbantius — fragments in Against Julian · §4-2-7

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Against Julian 4.2.7

I will strike at the other side of [his] definition.

If sexual warmth, the servant of honorable marriage, is restrained from excessive outbursts both by the effort of believers and by the power of the gift, and is curbed rather than extinguished by grace, it is commendable in its kind and within its proper measure; only its excesses are blameworthy.

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