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Lactantius lived through one of the greatest turning points in the history of Europe. It has been aptly described as the moment when the old world of paganism was in travail, when against its will it gave birth to the Christian Empire. The writings of this author are, together with those of Eusebius, the principal sources for the period of the great persecution of Diocletian and for the first...

for wrath to be in God. And when this seemed to him true and unassailable, he could not check the consequences, because with one affection cut away, necessity itself forced him to take away from God the other affection also. So, he who is not angered, surely is not moved by kindness either, which is contrary to anger. Accordingly then, if there is neither anger nor kindness in him, surely there is neither fear nor joy nor grief nor compassion. For there is one plan for all the affections, one connected
Pages 67–68
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