Octavius 33.5

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

Summary: The Jews were not captured with God but handed over by him for abandoning his law.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:48

ita prius eos deseruisse conprehendes quam esse desertos nec, ut impie loqueris, cum Deo suo captos, sed a Deo ut disciplinae transfugas deditos.

English · Claude translation

So you will understand that they deserted before they were deserted, and that they were not captured with their God, as you impiously say, but handed over by God as deserters from his discipline.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:48 · 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. 33.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/33/5/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 33.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/33/5/).

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