The Instructions of Commodianus

Commodiano (250–313 d.C.) · Instructiones adversus deos gentium

  1. 1. Preface
  2. 2. God's Indignation
  3. 3. The Worship of Demons
  4. 4. Saturn
  5. 5. Jupiter
  6. 6. Of the Same Jupiter's Thunderbolt
  7. 7. Of the Septizonium and the Stars
  8. 8. Of the Sun and Moon
  9. 9. Mercury
  10. 10. Neptune
  11. 11. Apollo the Soothsaying and False
  12. 12. Father Liber--Bacchus
  13. 13. The Unconquered One
  14. 14. Sylvanus
  15. 15. Hercules
  16. 16. Of the Gods and Goddesses
  17. 17. Of Their Images
  18. 18. Of Ammydates and the Great God
  19. 19. Of the Vain Nemesiaci
  20. 20. The Titans
  21. 21. The Montesiani
  22. 22. The Dulness of the Age
  23. 23. Of Those Who are Everywhere Ready
  24. 24. Of Those Who Live Between the Two
  25. 25. They Who Fear and Will Not Believe
  26. 26. To Those Who Resist the Law of Christ the Living God
  27. 27. O Fool, Thou Dost Not Die to God
  28. 28. The Righteous Rise Again
  29. 29. To the Wicked and Unbelieving Rich Man
  30. 30. Rich Men, Be Humble
  31. 31. To Judges
  32. 32. To Self-Pleasers
  33. 33. To the Gentiles
  34. 34. Moreover, to Ignorant Gentiles
  35. 35. Of the Tree of Life and Death
  36. 36. Of the Foolishness of the Cross
  37. 37. The Fanatics Who Judaize
  38. 38. To the Jews
  39. 39. Also to the Jews
  40. 40. Again to the Same
  41. 41. Of the Time of Antichrist
  42. 42. Of the Hidden and Holy People of the Almighty Christ, the Living God
  43. 43. Of the End of This Age
  44. 44. Of the First Resurrection
  45. 45. Of the Day of Judgment
  46. 46. To Catechumens
  47. 47. To the Faithful
  48. 48. O Faithful, Beware of Evil
  49. 49. To Penitents
  50. 50. Who Have Apostatized from God
  51. 51. Of Infants
  52. 52. Deserters
  53. 53. To the Soldiers of Christ
  54. 54. Of Fugitives
  55. 55. Of the Seed of the Tares
  56. 56. To the Dissembler
  57. 57. That Worldly Things are Absolutely to Be Avoided
  58. 58. That the Christian Should Be Such
  59. 59. To the Matrons of the Church of the Living God
  60. 60. To the Same Again
  61. 61. In the Church to All the People of God
  62. 62. To Him Who Wishes for Martyrdom
  63. 63. The Daily War
  64. 64. Of the Zeal of Concupiscence
  65. 65. They Who Give from Evil
  66. 66. Of a Deceitful Peace
  67. 67. To Ministers
  68. 68. To God's Shepherds
  69. 69. I Speak to the Elder-Born
  70. 70. To Visit the Sick
  71. 71. To the Poor in Health
  72. 72. That Sons are Not to Be Bewailed
  73. 73. Of Funeral Pomp
  74. 74. To the Clerks
  75. 75. Of Those Who Gossip, and of Silence
  76. 76. To the Drunkards
  77. 77. To the Pastors
  78. 78. To the Petitioners
  79. 79. The Name of the Man of Gaza

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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