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The Writings of Lactantius including the Divine Institutes
Lactantius, moved, perhaps, by Hosius or Eusebius, undertakes the instruction of the Emperor, while seeming only to copy the example of Justin writing to Antoninus Pius. The Institutes, it is true, had been begun at an earlier date; but he economizes, for a new purpose, the material, in which, perhaps, he had only purposed to follow up the work of his teacher, in language better fitted to the polite, for refuting heathenism. I cannot doubt that he aimed, in pure Latinity, to win the Emperor and his court to a deeper and purer conviction of divine truth: to more than a feeble and possibly superstitious idea that it was useless to contend with it, and that the gods of the empire were impotent to protect themselves against Christian progress and its masterly exposures of their shame and nothingness.
Title
The Writings of Lactantius
Authors
Alexander Roberts +1
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Lighthouse Publishing
Published
May 2025
Weight
999g
Dimensions
15.3 x 22.9 x 3.9 cm
ISBN
9781643734613
ISBN-10
164373461X
Eden Code
7263675
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