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Portrait of Lactantius Lactantius Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, A Treatise on the Anger of God Addressed to Donatus… (1885)

Again, in another place, enumerating the deeds by which God is especially moved to anger, she introduced these things:—
“Avoid unlawful services, and serve the living God. Abstain from adultery and impurity; bring up a pure generation of children; do not kill: for the Immortal will be angry with every one who may sin.”
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Portrait of Lactantius Lactantius Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, A Treatise on the Anger of God Addressed to Donatus… (1885)

All the prophets, being filled with the Divine Spirit, speak nothing else than of the favour of God towards the righteous, and His anger against the ungodly. And their testimony is indeed sufficient for us; but because it is not believed by those who make a display of wisdom by their hair and dress, [3] it was necessary to refute them by reason and arguments. For they act so preposterously, [4] that human things give authority to divine things, whereas divine things ought rather to give authority to human.
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Portrait of Lactantius Lactantius Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, A Treatise on the Anger of God Addressed to Donatus… (1885)

Apollodorus, indeed, boasts of her as his own citizen and countrywoman. But Fenestella also relates that ambassadors were sent by the senate to Erythræ, that the verses of this Sibyl might be conveyed to Rome, and that the consuls Curio and Octavius might take care that they should be placed in the Capitol, which had then been restored under the care of Quintus Catulus.
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