Arnobius — Against the Nations 2.46
46.1. But far be this—that we may say the same things again and more often—so monstrous and criminal a persuasion: that he, the salvation of things, God, the head of all virtues, the peak of kindness, and—to lift him with human praises—most wise, just, doing all things perfect and preserving the measures of his own integrity, either made something lame and less than right, or was for any thing a cause of miseries or dangers, or ordered the very acts by which human life is spent and celebrated, commanded them, and prescribed that they flow from his own constitution.
2. These things are lesser than he and destroy the power of his greatness, and it is so far from being believed that he is author of those things that whoever conceives that the human—an unhappy and wretched thing who grieves that he exists, who detests and mourns his condition, who understands himself procreated for no other cause than that evils might have matter through which to pour themselves out, and that they might always be wretched on whose torments some hidden force and cruelty adverse to humanity might feed—was begotten by him incurs the charge of sacrilegious impiety.
Latin
46.1. Sed procul haec abeat, ut eadem rursus frequentiusque dicamus, tam immanis et scelerata persuasio, ut ille salus rerum deus, omnium virtutum caput, benignitatis et columen, atque ut eum laudibus extollamus hnmanis, sapientissimus, iustus, perfecta omnia faciens et integritatis suae conservantia mensiones aut aliquid fecerit claudum et quod minus esset a recto, aut ulli rei fuerit miseriarum aut discriminum causa, aut ipsos actus quibus vita transigitur et celebratur humana ordinaverit, iusserit et ab sua fluere constitutione praeceperit.
2. Minora haec illo sunt et magnitudinis eius destruentia potestatem tantumque est longe, istarum <ut> auctor rerum esse credatur, ut in sacrilegae crimen inpietatis incurrat quisquis ab eo conceperit hominem esse prognatum, rem infelicem et miseram, qui esse se doleat, qui condicionem suam detestetur et lugeat, qui nulla alia de causa sese intellegat procreatum, quam ne materiam non haberent per quam diffunderent se mala, et essent miseri semper, quorum cruciatibus pasceretur nescio qua vis latens et humanitati adversa crudelitas.