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Conférences entre saint Augustin et le manichéen Fortunat

SECONDE CONFÉRENCE.

Traduction de M. l'abbé BURLERAUX.

LE LENDEMAIN, EN PRÉSENCE DU MÊME SECRÉTAIRE, VOICI COMMENT LES CHOSES SE PASSÈRENT.

Fortunat. Je dis que le Dieu tout-puissant ne peut tirer de lui rien de mauvais, et que tout ce qui est pur, découle de cette unique source inviolable. J'en conclus rigoureusement que tout ce qui, dans ce monde, est impur, ne vient pas de Dieu, n'a pas Dieu pour principe et pour cause. Le premier article de notre foi, c'est de croire que le mal ne vient pas de Dieu.

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Acts or Disputation Against Fortunatus, the Manichaean

Disputation of the Second Day.

The next day, a notary having again been summoned, the discussion was conducted as follows:

Fortunatus said: I say that God Almighty brings forth from Himself nothing evil, and that the things that are His remain incorrupt, having sprung and being born from an inviolable source; but other contrary things which have their being in this world, do not flow from God nor have appeared in this world with God as their author; that is to say, they do not derive their origin from God. These things therefore we have received in the belief that evil things are foreign to God.