Octavius 11.3

Minucius Felix · Octavius · ca. 197–250 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: They predict the end of the stars but eternity for themselves.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:15

anceps malum et gemina dementia, caelo et astris, quae sic relinquimus, ut inuenimus, interitum denuntiare, sibi mortuis et extinctis, qui sicut nascimur et interimus, aeternitatem repromittere!

English · Claude translation

A double evil and twin madness: to announce destruction to the sky and the stars, which we leave as we found them, and to promise eternity to themselves, dead and extinguished, who perish just as we are born!

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:15 · Karl Halm, ed., M. Minucii Felicis Octavius; Iulii Firmici Materni Liber de errore profanarum religionum, CSEL 2 (Vienna: Gerold, 1867), 1–56 · Latin text: K. Halm (CSEL 2, 1867), digitized by Open Greek and Latin, University of Leipzig (csel-dev), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text: As printed in CSEL 2. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Latin text of CSEL 2; made independently of existing English translations.
Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made) · Divided there by chapter only.
Topics: Eschatology

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 11.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/11/3/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 11.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/11/3/).

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