Simplices

: “Simplices quique, ne dixerim imprudentes et idiotae, quae maior semper credentium pars est” (“The simple — I do not call them senseless or unlearned — who are always the majority”); cp. de Resurr., ii.

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

* Simplices quique, ne dixerim imprudentes et idiotae, quae maior semper credentium pars est: [1755] 1

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

3: "Simplices enim quique, ne dixerim imprudentes et idiotæ, quæ major semper credentium pars est, quoniam et ipsa regula fidei a pluribus diis sæculi ad unicum et verum deum transfert, non intellegentes unicum quidem, sed cum sua [Greek: oikonomia] esse credendum, expavescunt ad [Greek: oikonomian]."

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890