Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Arnobius/Adversus Gentes/Book I/Chapter XIX

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Adversus Gentes, Book I
by Arnobius, translated by Hamilton Bryce and Hugh Campbell
Chapter XIX
158681Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Adversus Gentes, Book I — Chapter XIXHamilton Bryce and Hugh CampbellArnobius

19. Moreover, in this way you represent them as not only unstable and excitable, but, what all agree is far removed from the character of deity, as unfair in their dealings, as wrong-doers, and, in fine, as possessing positively no amount of even moderate fairness. For what is a greater wrong than to be angry with some, and to injure others, to complain of human beings, and to ravage the harmless corn crops, to hate the Christian name, and to ruin the worshippers of Christ with every kind of loss?