Traduction Masquer
Reply to Faustus the Manichaean

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Faustus said: As the learned Adimantus, the only teacher since the sainted Manichaeus deserving of our attention, has plentifully exposed and thoroughly refuted the errors of Judaism and of semi-Christianity, I think it not amiss that you should be supplied in writing with brief and pointed replies to the captious objections of our adversaries, that when, like children of the wily serpent, they try to bewilder you with their quibbles, you may be prepared to give intelligent answers. In this way they will be kept to the subject, instead of wandering from one thing to another. And I have placed our opinions and those of our opponent over against one another, as plainly and briefly as possible, so as not to perplex the reader with a long and intricate discourse.

Edition Masquer
Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri triginta tres

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Faustus dixit: Satis superque in lucem iam traductis erroribus [ac] Iudaicae superstitionis simul et semichristianorum abunde detecta fallacia, a doctissimo scilicet et solo nobis post beatum patrem nostrum Manichaeum studendo Adimanto, non ab re visum est, fratres carissimi, haec quoque brevia vobis et concinna responsa propter callidas et astutas conferentium nobiscum propositiones scribere, quo cum idem vos ex more parentis sui serpentis captiosis circumvenire quaestiunculis voluerint, et ipsi ad respondendum vigilanter eis sitis instructi. p. 252,8

Ita enim fiet, ut ad ea ipsa quae proposuerint religati ulterius huc atque illuc vagari non possint.

Ac ne profusa confusave oratione legentium inundarentur ingenia, tam breuiter quam distincte ex adverso sibi ipsorum atque nostrorum verba constitui.