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The Divine Institutes

Lactantius (AD 240–317) · Divinarum institutionum liber I · PL 6, 115–1094

  1. 1. Preface.—Of what great value the knowledge of the truth is and always has been
  2. 2. Chap. I.—That forgetfulness of reason makes men ignorant of the true God, whom they worship in adversity and despise in prosperity
  3. 3. Chap. I.—A comparison of the truth with eloquence: why the philosophers did not attain to it. Of the simple style of the scriptures
  4. 4. Chap. I.—Of the former religion of men, and how error was spread over every age, and of the seven wise men of Greece
  5. 5. Chap. I.—Of the non-condemnation of accused persons without a hearing of their cause; from what cause philosophers despised the sacred writings; of the first advocates of the Christian religion
  6. 6. Chap. I.—Of the worship of the true God, and of innocency, and of the worship of false Gods
  7. 7. Chap. I.—Of the world, and those who are about to believe, and those who are not; and in this the censure of the faithless
  8. the-epitome-of-the-divine-inst. The Preface.—The plan and purport of the whole Epitome, and of the Institutions

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Alumnus 6.20 · Candles 6.2 · Chaos 1.5 · Religion (In Moral Theology) 4.28 · Skepticism 1.2 · Sibyl 1.6 · Syncretism 7.7 · History, Philosophy of 7.17 · Virtue 5.1

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Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, A. Cleveland Coxe (eds.), Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885-1896. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Ante-Nicene Fathers). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).

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