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Chapter
XV.
Commodianus,2596
| 2596 Flourished about 270. There is wide variety of opinion respecting
this date, some placing as early as 250 and some nearly one hundred
years later. | while he was engaged in secular
literature read also our writings and, finding opportunity, accepted
the faith. Having become a Christian thus and wishing to offer the
fruit of his studies to Christ the author of his salvation, he wrote,
in barely tolerable semi-versified language, Against the pagans,
and because he was very little acquainted with our literature he was
better able to overthrow their [doctrine] than to establish ours.
Whence also, contending against them concerning the divine
counterpromises, he discoursed in a sufficiently wretched and so to
speak, gross fashion, to their stupefaction and our despair. Following
Tertullian, Lactantius and Papias as authorities he adopted and
inculcated
in his students good ethical principles and especially a voluntary love
of poverty.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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