On the Anger of God

De ira Dei

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About this work

Author: Lactantius
Attribution: authentic · Accepted as Lactantius's.
Older English translation: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 7 (1886) (public domain, at CCEL; for comparison: our translation is made from the original first and checked against it afterwards)
Date: ca. 313–314 (approximate) · Written after the Divine Institutes, which it cites.
Written at: Unknown (disputed)
Addressed to: Donatus
Language: Latin
Genre: treatise
Reference system: chapter.section (Brandt, CSEL 27.1)
SBL abbreviation: Ira
Text from: Samuel Brandt and Georg Laubmann, eds., L. Caeli Firmiani Lactanti Opera omnia, Pars 2, fasc. 1, CSEL 27.1 (Vienna: Tempsky; Leipzig: Freytag, 1893), 67–132 (Printed edition in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0)
Critical editions: Christiane Ingremeau, ed., Lactance: La colère de Dieu, SC 289 (Paris: Cerf, 1982) (cited, not reproduced)
CTS URN: urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0171.stoa006