Sophia Scriptura

Octavius 32.7

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

Summary: God is not distant but fills everything and is within us.

Latin text · CSEL 2:46–47

actum hominis ignorat et in caelo constitutus non potest aut omnes obire aut singulos nosse. erras o homo, et falleris: unde enim Deus longe est, cum omnia caelestia terrenaque et quae extra istam orbis prouinciam sunt, Deo plena sint? ubique non tantum nobis proximus, sed infusus est.

English · Claude translation

is ignorant of man's doings, and, being placed in heaven, cannot visit all or know individuals.' You err, O man, and are deceived: for how is God far off, when all things heavenly and earthly, and those beyond this province of the world, are full of God? Everywhere he is not only very near us but poured into us.

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Source
CSEL 2:46–47 · 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.
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Minucius Felix, Oct. 32.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/32/7/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 32.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/32/7/).

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