The Divine Institutes — Book 1, Chapter 23

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Theophilus was bishop of Antioch in the latter part of the second century. He was originally a heathen, and was converted to Christianity, as he tells us, by the reading of the Scriptures. [See vol. ii. pp. 87 and 120, this series.]

2

De Temporibus. Among the extant works of Theophilus there is not any with this title, but his work to Autolycus contains an apology for Christianity in three books. It is to this that Lactantius here refers.

3

Abnepos, son of a great-grandchild.

4

Pronepotes, great-grandsons.

Book 1 · Chapter 23

Chap. xxiii.—of the ages of vain superstitions, and the times at which they commenced.

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