Lactantius
Early Christian apologist, sometimes called "the Christian Cicero." Author of the Divine Institutes and On the Wrath of God.
Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)
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Verse 26: Let Us Make Man in Our Image and Likeness
— Quoted from his book On the Wrath of God, chapter 14, on man as God's high priest
"Hear Lactantius, book On the Wrath of God, chapter 14: "It follows that I should show why God made man. "