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AbstractL. Caelius Firmianus Lactantius (ca. 250–ca. 325ce) is the author of the first comprehensive exposition of Christianity in the Latin language,Divinarum Institutionum Libri VII(theDivine Institutes), written during the last Great Persecution of the church (303–313). Soon after the persecution ended, in 313–315, he wrote a vitriolic political pamphlet,De morte persecutorum (On the Deaths of the Persecutors), dedicated to a Christian comrade who had spent six years in a Nicomedia prison. This work describes the persecutions and the rise of Constantine from the point of view of a well‐informed if partisan political insider. From these, from Lactantius' other works, and from notices by Jerome (Chron. ad ann. Abr. 3222;Vir. Ill. 79–80), the outline of Lactantius' life may be reconstructed.
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AbstractL.
Caelius Firmianus Lactantius (ca.
250–ca.
325ce) is the author of the first comprehensive exposition of Christianity in the Latin language,Divinarum Institutionum Libri VII(theDivine Institutes), written during the last Great Persecution of the church (303–313).
Soon after the persecution ended, in 313–315, he wrote a vitriolic political pamphlet,De morte persecutorum (On the Deaths of the Persecutors), dedicated to a Christian comrade who had spent six years in a Nicomedia prison.
This work describes the persecutions and the rise of Constantine from the point of view of a well‐informed if partisan political insider.
From these, from Lactantius' other works, and from notices by Jerome (Chron.
ad ann.
Abr.
3222;Vir.
Ill.
79–80), the outline of Lactantius' life may be reconstructed.
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