Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Minucius Felix/The Octavius of Minucius Felix/Chapter 40

Chapter XL.&#8212;Argument:&#160; Then C&#230;cilius Exclaims that He is Vanquished by Octavius; And That, Being Now Conqueror Over Error, He Professes the Christian Religion.&#160; He Postpones, However, Till the Morrow His Training in the Fuller Belief of Its Mysteries.

While, therefore, I was silently turning over these things in my own mind, C&#230;cilius broke forth:&#160; &#8220;I congratulate as well my Octavius as myself, as much as possible on that tranquillity in which we live, and I do not wait for the decision.&#160; Even thus we have conquered:&#160; not unjustly do I assume to myself the victory.&#160; For even as he is my conqueror, so I am triumphant over error.&#160; Therefore, in what belongs to the substance of the question, I both confess concerning providence, and I yield to God; and I agree concerning the sincerity of the way of life which is now mine.&#160; Yet even still some things remain in my mind, not as resisting the truth, but as necessary to a perfect training of which on the morrow, as the sun is already sloping to his setting, we shall inquire at length in a more fitting and ready manner.&#8221;