Sophia Scriptura

Octavius 35.4

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

Summary: Ignorance of God, the Father of all, deserves punishment as much as offending him.

Latin text · CSEL 2:50

eos autem merito torqueri, qui Deum nesciunt, ut impios, ut iniustos, nisi profanus nemo deliberat, cum parentem omnium et omnium dominum non minoris sceleris sit ignorare quam laedere.

English · Claude translation

That those are rightly tormented who do not know God, as impious, as unjust, no one but a profane man doubts, since it is no less a crime to be ignorant of the parent of all and lord of all than to injure him.

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Source
CSEL 2:50 · 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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Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (OCR: "lJ" for "D".; OCR: "n" for "ri".): mento torqueri → merito torqueri; lJeum → Deum.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 35.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/35/4/).

Plain text
Minucius Felix, Oct. 35.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/35/4/).

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