Octavius 28.1

Summary: Octavius, once a persecutor himself, says it is unjust to judge Christians unheard.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:40

Quam autem inicum sit, de incognitis et inexploratis iudicare, quod facitis, nobis ipsis paenitentibus credite.

"But how unjust it is to judge about things unknown and unexamined, as you do, believe us who ourselves repent of it.

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: Persecution

Minucius Felix, Oct. 28.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/28/1/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 28.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/28/1/).