Complete Works of Lactantius, Vol. I

PATROLOGY

COMPLETE COURSE

OR
UNIVERSAL, COMPLETE, UNIFORM, CONVENIENT, AND ECONOMICAL LIBRARY,
OF ALL THE HOLY FATHERS, DOCTORS, AND ECCLESIASTICAL WRITERS
WHO FLOURISHED FROM THE APOSTOLIC AGE TO THE TIME OF INNOCENT III;
CHRONOLOGICAL REPRINT OF ALL THE MONUMENTS OF CATHOLIC TRADITION
THAT HAVE EXISTED THROUGH THE FIRST TWELVE CENTURIES OF THE CHURCH,

ACCORDING TO THE MOST ACCURATE EDITIONS, COLLATED WITH ONE ANOTHER AND WITH VARIOUS MANUSCRIPT CODICES, MOST DILIGENTLY CORRECTED;

ILLUSTRATED CONTINUOUSLY BY DISSERTATIONS, COMMENTARIES, AND VARIOUS READINGS;

ADORNED WITH ALL THE WORKS OF POPES AND SAINTS NOW FIRST PRINTED IN FRANCE, WHICH HAVE BEEN GIFTED WITH SEVERAL ANNOTATIONS AS WELL AS PARTICULAR ANALYTICAL INDICES, FOLLOWING INDIVIDUAL VOLUMES OR AUTHORS OF ANY SIGNIFICANCE;

ADORNED WITH CHAPTERS PROPERLY DISPOSED WITHIN THE TEXT ITSELF, AS WELL AS TITLES ON THE UPPER MARGIN OF EACH PAGE DISTINGUISHING AND SIGNIFYING THE UNDERLYING MATERIAL;

AMPLIFIED BY WORKS ALONG WITH ALL THE NOTES, DISSERTATIONS, COMMENTARIES, AND THE ORDER PERTAINING TO ECCLESIASTICAL TRADITION;

ENRICHED WITH TWO GENERAL INDICES: NAMELY THE FIRST OF SUBJECTS, BY CONSULTING WHICH ONE MAY SEE AT A GLANCE WHATEVER EACH OF THE FATHERS HAS WRITTEN ON ANY TOPIC; THE SECOND OF HOLY SCRIPTURE, FROM WHICH IT IS OBVIOUS FOR THE READER TO DISCOVER WHICH FATHERS AND IN WHICH PLACES OF THEIR WORKS THEY HAVE COMMENTED UPON THE TEXTS OF INDIVIDUAL BOOKS OF SCRIPTURE.

THE MOST ACCURATE EDITION, EASILY PREFERABLE TO ALL OTHERS, IF ONE CONSIDERS: THE CLARITY OF THE CHARACTERS, THE QUALITY OF THE PAPER, THE INTEGRITY OF THE TEXT, THE PERFECTION OF CORRECTION, THE VARIETY AND NUMBER OF REVIEWED WORKS COPIOUSLY ADDED, THE VERY CONVENIENT FORM OF THE VOLUMES WHICH IS SIMILAR, THE MODESTY OF THE PRICE, AND ESPECIALLY THIS COLLECTION, BEING SINGLE, METHODICAL, AND CHRONOLOGICAL, FURTHERMORE OF FRAGMENTS AND SHORT WORKS HITHERTO SCATTERED HERE AND THERE, BUT FIRST BROUGHT TOGETHER IN OUR LIBRARY FROM WORKS PERTAINING TO ALL AGES, PLACES, LANGUAGES, AND FORMS.

FIRST SERIES,

IN WHICH THE FATHERS, DOCTORS, AND WRITERS OF THE LATIN CHURCH APPEAR
FROM TERTULLIAN TO GREGORY THE GREAT.
UNDER THE CARE OF J.-P. MIGNE, Editor of Complete Courses in individual branches of Ecclesiastical Science.

VOLUME VII OF THE PATROLOGY.

SECOND AND LAST VOLUME OF LACTANTIUS.
APPENDICES TO THE WRITINGS OF THE HOLY FATHERS MARCELLINUS, MARCELLUS, EUSEBIUS, AND MELCHIADES,
WHO ARE REMEMBERED IN THE SIXTH VOLUME.