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Lactantius: The Divine Institutes, Books I–VII is unavailable, but you can change that!

The most important writing of Lactantius, The Divine Institutes was written between 303 and 311. Intended to point out the futility of pagan beliefs juxtaposed next to the reasonableness and truth of Christianity, this major work is one of the earliest systematic apologetic works written. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, “It was the first attempt at a systematic exposition of Christian...

come to know and honor the majesty of the one true God. When that most happy of days dawned for the world, the day on which the most high God carried you up to the summit of power, you set forth with a most favorable introduction upon a princedom salutary and desirable to all, when you brought back justice which had been overthrown and taken away and expiated the most foul crime of the other emperors. Because of this, God will grant you happiness, virtue, and length of days, so that, even when you
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