{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/104/1040184.htm","path":"chr/ecf/104/1040184.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/104/1040184.htm","text":"Concerning the Nature of Good,\n[De Natura Boni Contra Manich\u00e6os.] c. a.d. 405.\nWritten after the year 404. It is put in the Retractations immediately after the De Actis cum Felice Manich\u00e6o, which was written about the end of the year 404. It is one of the most argumentative of the Anti-Manich\u00e6an treatises, and so one of the most abstruse and difficult. The lines of argument here pursued have already been employed in part in the earlier treatises. The most interesting portions of the contents of the treatise, and the most damaging to the Manich\u00e6ans, are the long extracts from Mani\u2019s Thesaurus, and his Fundamental Epistle.\u2014A.H.N.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. IV: Writings in Conn...","type":"page"}