Commodianus

The Instructions of Commodianus

Name: The Instructions of Commodianus
Author: Commodianus

Classic translation

Treatises & Other · English translation, 1890

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Introductory Note
Preface
God's Indignation
The Worship of Demons
Saturn
Jupiter
Of the Same Jupiter's Thunderbolt
Of the Septizonium and the Stars
Of the Sun and Moon
Mercury
Neptune
Apollo the Soothsaying and False
Father Liber--Bacchus
The Unconquered One
Sylvanus
Hercules
Of the Gods and Goddesses
Of Their Images
Of Ammydates and the Great God
Of the Vain Nemesiaci
The Titans
The Montesiani
The Dulness of the Age
Of Those Who Are Everywhere Ready
Of Those Who Live Between the Two
They Who Fear and Will Not Believe
To Those Who Resist the Law of Christ the Living God
O Fool, Thou Dost Not Die to God
The Righteous Rise Again
To the Wicked and Unbelieving Rich Man
Rich Men, Be Humble
To Judges
To Self-Pleasers
To the Gentiles
Moreover, to Ignorant Gentiles
Of the Tree of Life and Death
Of the Foolishness of the Cross
The Fanatics Who Judaize
To the Jews
Also to the Jews
Again to the Same
Of the Time of Antichrist
Of the Hidden and Holy People of the Almighty Christ, the Living God
Of the End of This Age
Of the First Resurrection
Of the Day of Judgment
To Catechumens
To the Faithful
O Faithful, Beware of Evil
To Penitents
Who Have Apostatized From God
Of Infants
Deserters
To the Soldiers of Christ
Of Fugitives
Of the Seed of the Tares
To the Dissembler
That Worldly Things Are Absolutely to Be Avoided
That the Christian Should Be Such
To the Matrons of the Church of the Living God
To the Same Again
In the Church to All the People of God
To Him Who Wishes for Martyrdom
The Daily War
Of the Zeal of Concupiscence
They Who Give From Evil
Of a Deceitful Peace
To Ministers
To God's Shepherds
I Speak to the Elder-Born
To Visit the Sick
To the Poor in Health
That Sons Are Not to Be Bewailed
Of Funeral Pomp
To the Clerks
Of Those Who Gossip, and of Silence
To the Drunkards
To the Pastors
To the Petitioners
The Name of the Man of Gaza
Elucidation

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