Marcus Minucius Felix
3rd century · AD 250 · Early Fathers (before Nicaea) · 3 passages
Background on Marcus Minucius Felix
In his own words on 1 Timothy
- 1 Timothy 4:7
"And, not content with this wild opinion, they add to it and associate with it old women's fables: they say that they will rise again after death, and ashes, and dust; and with I know not what confidence, they believe by turns in one another's lies: you would think that they had already lived again. It is a double evil and a twofold madness to denounce destruction to the heaven and the stars, which we leave just as we find them, and to promise eternity to ourselves, who are dead and extinct-who, as we are born, so also perish!
THE OCTAVIUS OF MINUCIUS FELIX 11
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