Arnobius — Against the Nations 2.78
Therefore, people, stop blocking your hopes with empty questions, and if something stands otherwise than you think, you ought to trust the august reality rather than your opinions.
Times full of dangers press, and deadly punishments hang over us: let us flee to the saving God and not demand a reason for the gift offered. When it is a matter of souls’ salvation and of regard for ourselves, something must be done even without a reason, as Arrian approves Epictetus to have said.
We doubt, we waver, and we suspect that what is said is not full of faith: let us commit ourselves to God, and let our unbelief not weigh more with us than the greatness of his name and power, lest while we hunt arguments by which what we do not want to be may seem false and we strive against the true, the last day steal upon us and we be found in the jaws of hostile death.
Latin
78.1. Quare, homines, abstinete quaestionibus vacuis imspedire spes vestras, nec si aliter quam vos putatis aliquid se habet, vestris potius opinionibus credere quam rei debetis augustae.
2. Urgent tempora periculis plena et exitiabiles imminent poenae: confugiamus ad salutarem deum nec rationem muneris exigamus oblati. Cum de animarum agatur salute ac de respectu nostri, aliquid et sine ratione faciendum est, ut Epictetum dixisse adprobat Arrianus [Arrianus: Epict. fr. Schenkl 7].
3. Dubitamus, ambigimus nec esse quod dicitur plenum fidei suspicamur: committamus nos deo, nec plus apud nos valeat incredulitas nostra quam illius nominis et potentiae magnitudo, ne dum ipsi nobis argumenta conquirimus quibus esse videatur falsum id quod esse nolimus atque adnitimur verum, obrepat dies extremus et inimicae mortis reperiamur in faucibus.