Interpretation and reception
Divine Institutes
Lactantius
Places world history in a six-thousand-year scheme and describes final conflict and punishment.
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Lactantius: no more than two hundred years remain · commentary →
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Edition and location
Source. Translated by William Fletcher. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 7. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) New Advent revised web edition.
Book VII, chapters 14 onward and Antichrist passage