COMMODIANI INSTRUCTIONES ADVERSUS GENTIUM DEOS PRO CHRISTIANA DISCIPLINA: PER LITTERAS VERSUUM PRIMAS.

 I.---PRAEFATIO.

 II.---INDIGNATIO DEI.

 III.---CULTURA DAEMONUM.

 IV.---SATURNUS.

 V.---JUPPITER.

 VI.---DE FULMINE IPSIUS JOVIS.

 VII.---DE SEPTIZONIO ET STELLIS.

 VIII.---DE SOLE ET LUNA.

 IX.---MERCURIUS.

 X.---NEPTUNUS.

 XI.---APOLLO SORTILEGUS, FALSUS.

 XII.---LIBER PATER, BACCHUS.

 XIII.---INVICTUS.

 XIV.---SYLVANUS.

 XV.---HERCULES.

 XVI.---DE DIS DEABUSQUE.

 XVII.---DE SIMULACRIS EORUM.

 XVIII.---DE AMMUDATE ET DEO MAGNO.

 XIX.---NEMESIACIS VANIS.

 XX.---TITANES.

 XXI.---MONTESIANIS.

 XXII.---HEBETUDO SAECULI.

 XXIII.---DE UBIQUE PARATIS.

 XXIV.---INTER UTRUMQUE VIVENTIBUS.

 XXV.---QUI TIMENT, ET NON CREDENT.

 XXVI.---REPUGNANTIBUS ADVERSUS LEGEM CHRISTI DEI VIVI.

 XXVII.---STULTE NON PERMORERIS DEO.

 XXVIII.---JUSTI RESURGUNT.

 XXIX.---DIVITI INCREDULO MALO.

 XXX.---DIVITES HUMILES ESTOTE.

 XXXI.---JUDICIBUS.

 XXXII.---SIBI PLACENTIBUS.

 XXXIII.---GENTILIBUS.

 XXXIV.---ITEM GENTILIBUS IGNARIS.

 XXXV.---DE LIGNO VITAE ET MORTIS.

 XXXVI.---DE CRUCIS STULTITIA.

 XXXVII.---QUI JUDAEIDIANT FANATICI.

 XXXVIII.---JUDAEIS.

 XXXIX.---ITEM JUDAEIS.

 XL.---ITERUM IPSIS.

 XLI.---DE ANTICHRISTI TEMPORE.

 XLII.---DE POPULO ABSCONSO SANCTO OMNIPOTENTIS CHRISTI DEI VIVI.

 XLIII.---DE SAECULI ISTIUS FINE.

 XLIV.---DE RESURRECTIONE PRIMA.

 XLV.---DE DIE JUDICII.

 XLVI.---CATECUMINIS.

 XLVII.---FIDELIBUS.

 XLVIII.---FIDELES CAVETE MALUM.

 XLIX.---POENITENTIBUS.

 L.---QUI APOSTATAVERUNT DEO.

 LI.---DE INFANTIBUS.

 LII.---DESERTORES.

 LIII.---MILITIBUS CHRISTI.

 LIV.---DE REFUGIS.

 LV.---DE LOLII SEMINE.

 LVI.---DISSIMULATORI.

 LVII.---SAECULARIA IN TOTUM FUGIENDA.

 LVIII.---CHRISTIANUM TALEM ESSE.

 LIX.---MATRONIS EECLESIAE DEI VIVI.

 LX.---ITEM IPSIS.

 LXI.---IN ECCLESIA, OMNI POPULO DEI.

 LXII.---MARTYRIUM VOLENTI.

 LXIII.---BELLUM COTTIDIANUM.

 LXIV.---DE ZELO CONCUPISCENTIAE.

 LXV.---QUI DE MALO DONANT.

 LXVI.---DE PACE SUBDOLA.

 LXVII.---LECTORIBUS.

 LXVIII.---MINISTRIS.

 LXIX.---PASTORIBUS DEI.

 LXX.---MAJORIBUS NATIS DICO.

 LXXI.---INFIRMUM SIC VISITA.

 LXXII.---PAUPERIBUS SANIS.

 LXXIII.---FILIOS NON LUGENDOS.

 LXXIV.---DE POMPA FUNERIS.

 LXXV.---CLERICIS.

 LXXVI.---DE FABULOSIS ET SILENTIO.

 LXXVII.---EBRIOSIS.

 LXXVIII.---PASTORI.

 LXXIV.---ORANTI.

 LXXX.---NOMEN GAZAEI.

XLI.—Of the Time of Antichrist.11    [See Elucidation at end.]

Isaiah said:  This is the man who moveth the world and so many kings, and under whom the land shall become desert.  Hear ye how the prophet foretold concerning him.  I have said nothing elaborately, but negligently.  Then, doubtless, the world shall be finished when he shall appear.  He himself shall divide the globe into three ruling powers, when, moreover, Nero shall be raised up from hell, Elias shall first come to seal the beloved ones; at which things the region of Africa and the northern nation, the whole earth on all sides, for seven years shall tremble.  But Elias shall occupy the half of the time, Nero shall occupy half.  Then the whore Babylon, being reduced to ashes, its embers shall thence advance to Jerusalem; and the Latin conqueror shall then say, I am Christ, whom ye always pray to; and, indeed, the original ones who were deceived combine to praise him.  He does many wonders, since his is the false prophet.  Especially that they may believe him, his image shall speak.  The Almighty has given it power to appear such.  The Jews, recapitulating Scriptures from him, exclaim at the same time to the Highest that they have been deceived.

XLI.---DE ANTICHRISTI TEMPORE.

Dixit Esaias: Hic homo, qui commovet orbem, Et reges totidem, sub quo fiet terra deserta. Audite quoniam propheta de illo praedixit: Nihil ego composite dixi, sed neglegendo. Tum scilicet mundus finitur, cum ille parebit. In tres imperantes ipse diviserit orbem: Cum fuerit autem Nero de inferno levatus, Helias veniet prius signare dilectos. Res quas Africae regio et Arctoa natio, tota In septem annis tremebit undique terra, Sed medium tempus Helias, medium Nero tenebit. 0231B Tunc Babylon meretrix incinefacta favilla, Inde ad Jerusalem perget, victorque Latinus Tunc dicet: Ego sum Christus quem semper oratis. Et quidem conlaudant illum primitivi decepti. Multa signa facit, quoniam ejus pseudopropheta. Praesertim ut credant illi, loquetur imago. Omnipotens tribuit ut talis evadat. 0232A Recapitulantes scripturas ex eo Judaei, Exclamant pariter ad excelsum sese deceptos.