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constet in criminibus esse

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This comes from Contra Paganos by Maximus of Turin, a Latin Church father (c. late 4th-early 5th century). This treatise is written against polytheism and determinism of the heathen.

Background: In what precedes, Maximus is asking the heathen (ironically): “Why do you place some of your many gods in heaven (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury), but not other ones (Neptune, Apollo, Vulcan, Asclepius)? Is that because the latter have committed some sin, and the former have...

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