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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[3847] Lit., “the right of drinking.”
[3848] Lit., “the kindness of.”
[3849] Lit., “what waits He for, inviting,” quid invitans expectat; the reading of the ms., both Roman edd. and Oehler. Gelenius, followed by Canterus and Elmenhorst, changed the last word into peccat—“in what does He sin,” adopted by the other edd., with the addition of in te—“against you.”
[3850] Lit., “exposes under decision of your own right.”
[3851] Cf. Plato, Rep., ii. st. p. 379: “of a few things God would be the cause, but of many He would not;” and x. st. p. 617 fin.
[3852] So LB., Orelli, Oehler, adopting the emendation of Ursinus, tu te muneris commoditate privaveris, for the unintelligible reading of the ms., tuti m. c. probaveris.
[3853] i.e., immortal, deos, so corrected by Gelenius for the ms. deus—“if either God made us.”
[3854] So most edd., reading inanis for the ms. animi; retained, though not very intelligible, in LB., while Hild. reads anilis—“foolish.”
[3855] So the ms. now reads verti; but this word, according to Pithœus, is in a later handwriting, and some letters have been erased.
[3856] So the edd., reading tibi desit? opem desideras tibi, except Hild. and Oehler, who retain the ms. reading, t. d. o. desideranti—“as though He failed you desiring Him to bring help.”
[3857] So Ursinus, reading in ania cognomines for the ms. in alia, which Orelli would interpret, “call the reverse of the truth.”
[3858] Lit., “For the parts of bringing…has enjoined and given over,” partes…injunctum habet et traditum, where it will be important to notice that Arnobius, writing rapidly, had carried with him only the general idea, and forgotten the mode in which this was expressed.
[3859] Pontificium.
[3860] Here, too, according to Pithœus, there are signs of erasure.
[3861] i.e., admit.
[3862] This passage at once suggests John x. 9 and xiv. 6, and it is therefore the more necessary to notice the way in which Arnobius speaks (“so to say”), which is certainly not the tone of one quoting a passage with which he is well acquainted. [Elucidation I.]
[3863] Lit., “bent.”
[3864] Cf. i. 13 and 58.
[3865] Lit., “crops being invented.”
[3866] So the later edd., reading constiteritfrom the margin of Ursinus; but in the ms. and first four edd. the reading is constituerit—“has established,” for which there is no subject.
[3867] So the later edd., reading aversionem ex (LB., and preceding edd. a) religione for the ms. et religionem—“against us the hatred and religion of past ages.”
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