Theophilus of Antioch (b.115 – d.181) “For it was fit that they who wrote should themselves have been eye-witnesses of those things concerning which they made assertions, or should accurately have ascertained them from those who had seen them; for they who write of things unascertained beat the air. For what did it profit Homer […]
Repentance and Righteousness
Theophilus of Antioch (b.115 – d.181) “And when the people transgressed the law which had been given to them by God, God being good and pitiful, unwilling to destroy them, in addition to His giving them the law, afterwards sent forth also prophets to them from among their brethren, to teach and remind them of […]
Why God Made Man
Lactantius (ca. 240 – ca. 320) NOTE : Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was an early Christian author who became an advisor to the first Christian Roman emperor, Constantine I, guiding his religious policy as it developed, and tutor to his son. “It follows that I show for what purpose God made man himself. As He […]
Of the Anger of God and Man
Lactantius (ca. 240 – ca. 320) “There remains one question, and that the last. For some one will perhaps say, that God is so far from being angry, that in His precepts He even forbids man to be angry. I might say that the anger of man ought to be curbed, because he is often […]