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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Commodianus, The Instructions of Commodianus
by Commodianus, translated by Robert Ernest Wallis
Chapter 6
155939Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Commodianus, The Instructions of Commodianus — Chapter 6Robert Ernest WallisCommodianus

V.—Jupiter.

This Jupiter was born to Saturn in the island of Breta; and when he was grown up, he deprived his father of the kingdom.  He then deluded the wives and sisters of the nobles.  Moreover, Pyracmon, a smith, had made for him a sceptre.  In the beginning God made the heaven, the earth, and the sea.  But that frightful creature, born in the midst of time, went forth as a youth from a cave, and was nourished by stealth.  Behold, that God is the author of all things, not that Jupiter.