Octavius 27.5

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

Summary: Demons confess what they are when Christians cast them out.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:40

haec omnia sciunt pleraque pars uestrum ipsos daemonas de semetipsis confiteri, quotiens a nobis tormentis uerborum et orationis incendiis de corporibus exiguntur.

English · Claude translation

Most of you know all this: that the demons themselves confess about themselves whenever they are driven out of bodies by us with the torments of our words and the fires of our prayer.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:40 · 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: Prayer

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 27.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/27/5/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 27.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/27/5/).

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