Octavius 33.2

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

Summary: Octavius answers the objection that the Jews' one God did not save them.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:47

sed Iudaeis nihil profuit, quod unum et ipsi Deum aris atque templis maxima superstitione coluerunt. ignorantia laberis, si priorum aut oblitus aut inscius posteriorum recordaris.

English · Claude translation

'But it did the Jews no good that they too worshipped one God with altars and temples and the greatest superstition.' You slip through ignorance, if you remember later events while forgetting, or not knowing, the earlier ones.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:47 · 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.

Notes

Translation notes

The objection is Caecilius's (10.4).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: "n" for "u".): ant inscius → aut inscius.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 33.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/33/2/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 33.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/33/2/).

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