Octavius 35.5

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

Summary: Even with their shortcomings, Christians live far better than pagans.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:50

et quamquam inperitia Dei sufficiat ad poenam, ita ut notitia prosit ad ueniam, tamen si uobiscum Christiani comparemur, quamuis in nonnullis disciplina nostra minor est, multo tamen uobis meliores deprehendemur.

English · Claude translation

And although ignorance of God suffices for punishment, as knowledge of him avails for pardon, yet if we Christians are compared with you, though in some respects our discipline falls short, we shall be found much better than you.

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Source: CSEL 2:50 · 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: Ethics

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 35.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/35/5/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 35.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/35/5/).

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