Octavius 19.13

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

Summary: Xenophon and Ariston recognized that God cannot be seen or grasped.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:27

nam Socraticus Xenophon formam dei ueri negat uideri posse et ideo quaeri non oportere, Ariston Stoicus conprehendi omnino non posse: uterque maiestatem Dei intellegendi desperatione senserunt.

English · Claude translation

For Xenophon the Socratic denies that the form of the true God can be seen and says that therefore it ought not to be sought; Ariston the Stoic says that he cannot be comprehended at all: both perceived the majesty of God through despair of understanding it.

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Source

CSEL 2:27 · 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.

Extrabiblical texts

Xenophon, Mem. 4.3.13 (Xenophon, Memorabilia) · allusion, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Cf. Xenophon, Mem. 4.3.13.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 19.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/19/13/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 19.13 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/19/13/).

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