On the Workmanship of God

De opificio 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. 303–305 (probable) · Written early in the Great Persecution, before the Divine Institutes.
Written at: Nicomedia, Bithynia (Asia Minor) (probable)
Addressed to: Demetrianus
Language: Latin
Genre: treatise
Reference system: chapter.section (Brandt, CSEL 27.1)
SBL abbreviation: Opif.
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), 4–64 (Printed edition in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0)
Critical editions: Michel Perrin, ed., Lactance: L'ouvrage du dieu créateur, SC 213–214 (Paris: Cerf, 1974) (cited, not reproduced)
CTS URN: urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0171.stoa007