Julian the Bishop

Julian the bishop, a man of energetic character, learned in the Divine Scriptures and skilled in both Greek and Latin, was counted among the distinguished teachers of the church before he revealed that he shared in the ungodliness of Pelagius. But afterward, trying to defend the Pelagian heresy, he wrote four books Against Augustine, the opponent of Pelagius, and then eight books more. There is also a book containing a debate in which each defends his own side. [a] In a time of famine and want this Julian drew many people to himself by the alms he gave and by the glamour of virtue that these cast around him, and he made them his partners in his heresy. He died in the reign of Valentinian, the son of Constantius. [b]