Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?
LactantiusBut God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
LactantiusLet those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.
LactantiusFor when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men....Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.
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