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Octavius

Minucius Felix, ANF 4

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2. Minucius Relates How Delightful to Him is the Recollection of the Things that Had…
3. The Arrival of Octavius at Rome During the Time of the Public Holidays Was Very Agreeable…
4. Octavius, Displeased at the Act of This Superstitious Man, Sharply Reproaches Minucius,…
5. Caecilius, Somewhat Grieved at This Kind of Rebuke Which for His Sake Minucius Had Had to…
6. Caecilius Begins His Argument First of All by Reminding Them that in Human Affairs All…
7. The Object of All Nations, and Especially of the Romans, in Worshipping Their Divinities,…
8. That the Roman Auspices and Auguries Have Been Neglected with Ill Consequences, But Have…
9. The Impious Temerity of Theodorus, Diagoras, and Protagoras is Not at All to Be…
10. The Religion of the Christians is Foolish, Inasmuch as They Worship a Crucified Man, and…
11. Whatever the Christians Worship, They Strive in Every Way to Conceal: They Have No…
12. Besides Asserting the Future Conflagration of the Whole World, They Promise Afterwards…
13. Moreover, What Will Happen to the Christians Themselves After Death, May Be Anticipated…
14. Caecilius at Length Concludes that the New Religion is to Be Repudiated; And that We Must…
15. With Something of the Pride of Self-Satisfaction, Caecilius Urges Octavius to Reply to…
16. Caecilius Retorts Upon Minucius, with Some Little Appearance of Being Hurt, that He is…
17. Octavius Arranges His Reply, and Trusts that He Shall Be Able to Dilute the Bitterness of…
18. Man Ought Indeed to Know Himself, But This Knowledge Cannot Be Attained by Him Unless He…
19. Moreover, God Not Only Takes Care of the Universal World, But of Its Individual Parts.…
20. Moreover, the Poets Have Called Him the Parent of Gods and Men, the Creator of All…
21. But If the World is Ruled by Providence and Governed by the Will of One God, an Ignorant…
22. Octavius Attests the Fact that Men Were Adopted as Gods, by the Testimony of Euhemerus,…
23. Moreover, These Fables, Which at First Were Invented by Ignorant Men, Were Afterwards…
24. Although the Heathens Acknowledge Their Kings to Be Mortal, Yet They Feign that They are…
25. He Briefly Shows, Moreover, What Ridiculous, Obscene, and Cruel Rites Were Observed in…
26. Then He Shows that Caecilius Had Been Wrong in Asserting that the Romans Had Gained Their…
27. The Weapon that Caecilius Had Slightly Brandished Against Him, Taken from the Auspices…
28. Recapitulation. Doubtless Here is a Source of Error: Demons Lurk Under the Statues and…
29. Nor is It Only Hatred that They Arouse Against the Christians, But They Charge Against…
30. Nor is It More True that a Man Fastened to a Cross on Account of His Crimes is Worshipped…
31. The Story About Christians Drinking the Blood of an Infant that They Have Murdered, is a…
32. The Charge of Our Entertainments Being Polluted with Incest, is Entirely Opposed to All…
33. Nor Can It Be Said that the Christians Conceal What They Worship Because They Have No…
34. That Even If God Be Said to Have Nothing Availed the Jews, Certainly the Writers of the…
35. Moreover, It is Not at All to Be Wondered at If This World is to Be Consumed by Fire,…
36. Righteous and Pious Men Shall Be Rewarded with Never-Ending Felicity, But Unrighteous Men…
37. Fate is Nothing, Except So Far as Fate is God. Man’s Mind is Free, and Therefore So is…
38. Tortures Most Unjustly Inflicted for the Confession of Christ’s Name are Spectacles…
39. Christians Abstain from Things Connected with Idol Sacrifices, Lest Any One Should Think…
40. When Octavius Had Finished This Address, Minucius and Caecilius Sate for Some Time in…
41. Then Caecilius Exclaims that He is Vanquished by Octavius; And That, Being Now Conqueror…
42. Finally, All are Pleased, and Joyfully Depart: Caecilius, that He Had Believed; Octavius,…
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