Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Minucius Felix/The Octavius of Minucius Felix/Chapter 41

Chapter XLI.&#8212;Argument:&#160; Finally, All are Pleased, and Joyfully Depart:&#160; C&#230;cilius, that He Had Believed; Octavius, that He Had Conquered; And Minucius, that the Former Had Believed, and the Latter Had Conquered.

&#8220;But for myself,&#8221; said I, &#8220;I rejoice more fully on behalf of all of us; because also Octavius has conquered for me, in that the very great invidiousness of judging is taken away from me.&#160; Nor can I acknowledge by my praises the merit of his words:&#160; the testimony both of man, and of one man only, is weak.&#160; He has an illustrious reward from God, inspired by whom he has pleaded, and aided by whom he has gained the victory.&#8221;

After these things we departed, glad and cheerful:&#160; C&#230;cilius, to rejoice that he had believed; Octavius, that he had succeeded; and I, that the one had believed, and the other had conquered.