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Suicide

I’m currently reading The Divine Institutes, written early in the 4th century by Lactantius. Last night I read a comment he made in Book 3 about suicide:

”For if a homicide is guilty because he is a destroyer of man, he who puts himself to death is under the same guilt, because he puts to death a man. Yea, that crime may be considered to be greater, the punishment of which belongs to God alone.For as we did not come into this life of our own accord; so on the other hand, we can only withdraw from this habitation of the body which has been appointed for us to keep, by the command of Him who placed us in this body that we may inhabit it , until He orders us to depart from it; and if any violence is offered to us, we must endure it with equanimity, since the death of an innocent person cannot be avenged, and since we have a great Judge who alone always has the power of taking vengeance in His hands.”

(Chapter 18)
 
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