Octavius 10.8

Summary: Who is this lonely God whom no nation knows?

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Latin text · CSEL 2:14

unde autem uel quis ille aut ubi deus unicus, solitarius, destitutus, quem non gens libera, non regna, non saltem Romana superstitio nouerunt?

And whence, or who, or where is that one God, solitary, forsaken, whom no free nation, no kingdoms, not even Roman superstition has known?

Source: CSEL 2:14 · 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.

Minucius Felix, Oct. 10.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/10/8/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 10.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/10/8/).