Octavius 28.4

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

Summary: Those who denied Christ under torture were let off as if cleared of all crimes.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:41

et si qui infirmior malo pressus et uictus Christianum se negasset, fauebamus ei, quasi eierato nomine iam omnia facta sua illa negatione purgaret.

English · Claude translation

And if anyone weaker, pressed and overcome by suffering, denied that he was a Christian, we favoured him, as if, the name abjured, he had cleansed all his deeds by that denial.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:41 · 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: Persecution

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: words run together.): senegasset → se negasset.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 28.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/28/4/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 28.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/28/4/).

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