Sophia Scriptura

Octavius 36.4

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

Summary: The truly poor are those who always want more; Christians are rich toward God.

Latin text · CSEL 2:51

et tamen qui potest pauper esse qui non eget, qui non inhiat alieno, qui Deo diues est? magis pauper ille est, qui cum multa habeat, plura desiderat.

English · Claude translation

And yet who can be poor who does not want, who does not covet another's goods, who is rich toward God? He is rather poor who, though he has much, desires more.

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Source
CSEL 2:51 · 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. 36.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/36/4/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 36.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/36/4/).

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