Arnobius — Against the Nations 2.53
53.1. Therefore since these things are so, we believe not discordantly nor emptily that human souls are of a middle quality, as brought forth from things not principal, subject to the law of death, of small and slipping powers: that they are gifted with perpetuity if they bring the hope of so great a gift to God the prince, to whom alone belongs the power to bestow such things with corruption shut out.
2. "But we believe that foolishly." — What is that to you, if most ineptly, stupidly? Where do we harm you, or what injury do we do or inflict on you, if we trust that almighty God will have regard for us when we begin to leave bodies and, as it is said, be claimed from the jaws of Orcus?
Latin
53.1. Ergo cum haec ita sint, non absone neque inaniter credimus, mediae qualitatis esse animas hominum utpote ab rebus non principalibus editas, iuri subiectas mortis, parvarum et labilium virium: perpetuitate donari, <si> spem muneris tanti deum ad principem conferant, cui soli potestas est talia corruptione exclusa largiri.
2. ''Sed stulte istud credimus''. - Quid ad vos, <si> ineptissime, fatue? Ubi vobis nocemus vel quam vobis facimus aut inrogamus iniuriam, si omnipotentem confidimus deum habiturum esse rationem nostri, cum abire a corporibus coeperimus et ab Orci faucibus quemadmodum dicitur [Liv. IX,6] vindicari?