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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 6
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1. Since I have found some who deem themselves very wise in their opinions, acting as if they were inspired, [3239] and announcing with all the authority of an oracle, [3240] that from the time when the Christian people began to exist in the world the universe has gone to ruin, that the human race has been visited with ills of many kinds, that even the very gods, abandoning their accustomed charge, in virtue of which they were wont in former days to regard with interest our affairs, have been driven from the regions of earth,--I have resolved, so far as my capacity and my humble power …
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