{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050803.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050803.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050803.htm","text":"Chapter 4 [II.]\u2014The Calumny of Julian,\u2014That the Catholics Teach that Free Will is Taken Away by Adam\u2019s Sin.\nLet us now, therefore, reply to Julian\u2019s letter. \u201cThose Manicheans say,\u201d says he, \u201cwith whom now we do not communicate,\u2014that is, the whole of them with whom we differ,\u2014that by the sin of the first man, that is, of Adam, free will perished: and that no one has now the power of living well, but that all are constrained into sin by the necessity of their flesh.\u201d He calls the catholics Manicheans, after the manner of that Jovinian who a few years ago, as a new heretic, destroyed the virginity of the blessed Mary, and placed the marriage of the faithful on the same level with her sacred virginity. And he did not object this to the catholics on any other ground than that he wished them to seem to be either accusers or condemners of marriage.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise Agains...","type":"page"}