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Commodianus
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Introductory Note to the Instructions of Commodianus.
[1841] He gives us a painful picture of the decline of godliness in his days; of which see Wordsworth’s Hippolytus, p. 140.
[1842] [Sufficient evidence of his heathen origin.]
VI.—Of the Same Jupiter’s Thunderbolt.
[1843] [An index of time. He writes, therefore, in the third century.]
[1844] We have changed marhus et into mortuus, and de suo into denuo.
[1845] [He defers to the Canon Law and notes the Duæ Viæ.]
[1846] [This is not Patripassianism. Nor does the “one God” of the next chapter involve this heresy.]
XXXIV.—Moreover, to Ignorant Gentiles.
[1847] [Here ends the apologetic portion.]
XXXV.—Of the Tree of Life and Death.
[1848] Scil. “capite,” conjectural for “cavete.”
XXXVI.—Of the Foolishness of the Cross.
[1849] [Or, “shadows forth Himself.”]
[1850] “Eusebius tells of another Enoch, who was not translated without seeing death.”—Rig. [See Gen. iv. 17, 18. S.]
[1851] Et inde secunda terribilem legem primo cum pace revincit.—Davis, conjecturally.
XLI.—Of the Time of Antichrist.
[1852] [See Elucidation at end.]
XLIII.—Of the End of This Age.
[1853] [The translator here inserts a mark of interrogation. The meaning is: lick up them (the wicked) who have persecuted them. Dan. iii. 22.]
[1855] [Catechumens falling away before baptism must not despair, but persevere and remain under discipline.]
[1856] Or, “If one prophet only had cried out to the world.”
LVIII.—That the Christian Should Be Such.
[1857] Sponte profectos.
[1858] Deperdunt.
LXII.—To Him Who Wishes for Martyrdom.
[1859] [Compare Clement’s reproof, vol. ii. p. 423, this series.]
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