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Cyprian
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Introductory Notice to Cyprian.
[3441] [Ezek. ix. 4; Rev. vii. 3; ix. 4.]
[3442] Or, according to some readings, “Be wise, therefore.”
[3446] Wisd. v. 1-9.
[3447] “From the deep and darkling night of superstition” is another reading.
[3448] [Compare the Octavius of Minucius Felix with this treatise, and also the other apologists, e.g., vol. ii. 93.]
[3449] [Written a.d. 247. Compare vol. ii. pp. 79, 136, 184, etc.]
[3450] Moreover, that it was manifest from their deceitful results, that nothing could be referred to auspices or auguries; nay, even those who acknowledged both one God and the demons, allowed that these illusions were the work of the demons, according to the testimony of the poets themselves, and Socrates, Plato, Trismegistus, and Hostanes. The second point, that God is one, he makes evident in a few words, as well from the greater dignity of a monarchy than of other forms of government, as from the very expressions of the heathen and of the common people—“O God!” and the like. Finally, he treats of Christ more at large, from the Jewish prophets and from the evangelical history.
[3451] Most editors read, “Castor and Pollux.”
[3452] Latebra.
[3453] [“Litteras imprimere…signare nummos.” How could the art of printing have failed to follow such inventions and such words? Every coin was a hint of the printer’s art. God only could have restrained the invention till the set time. Dan. xii. 4.]
[3454] According to some readings, the words “an old man” are omitted.
[3455] The readings here vary much. The first part of the sentence is found in Minucius Felix, c. 21. [Vol. iv. p. 185.]
[3456] The following passage, accepted in some editions, is of doubtful authenticity: “To such an extent, indeed, were feigned the names of gods among the Romans, that there is even among them a god, Viduus, who widows the body from the soul—who, as being sad and funereal, is not kept within the walls, but placed outside; but who nevertheless, in that he is excluded, is rather condemned by the Roman religion than worshipped. There is also Scansus, so called from ascents, and Forculus from doors, and Limentinus from thresholds, and Cardea from hinges, and Orbona from bereavement.”
[3457] “Parricida.”
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