Chapter 25 [XII.]—The Sixth Calumny,—That Augustin Asserts that Even Christ Was Not Free from Sins.

In like manner as to what he added, that I say,64    See Book iii. 16, below. “that Christ even was not free from sins, but that, from the necessity of the flesh, He spoke falsely, and was stained with other faults,” he should see from whom he heard these things, or in whose letters he read them; for that, indeed, he perchance did not understand them, and turned them by the deceitfulness of malice into calumnious meanings.

CAPUT XII.

25. Sexta calumnia, Nec Christum a peccatis liberum fuisse. Proinde iste quod addidit nos dicere, «Christum et a peccatis liberum non fuisse, sed carnis necessitate mentitum, et aliis maculatum fuisse delictis:» viderit a quibus audierit, vel in quorum litteris legerit; quod quidem fortasse non intellexit, et in sensus calumniosos malitia fallente convertit.