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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[1209] i.e., Jesus Christ the Son of God = the Word of God.
[1210] Rom. xii. 19; Heb. x. 30.
[1211] Animi sui complicitam notionem evolvere.
[1212] [Nisi lacessitus injuria.]
[1213] Comparem. Injustice and impatience are here represented as a pair of gladiators well matched against each other.
[1214] Pecudes, including horses and cattle.
[1215] Caninam, i.e., resembling a dog, cutting.
[1216] The allusion is to the Philippics of Cicero, a title borrowed from Demosthenes.
[1217] Sustentatio sui.
[1218] Quoad fieri potest. Others read, “quod fieri potest.”
[1219] Maturius sopiatur.
[1221] Cicero, Pro Ligar., 12.
Chap. XIX.—Of the Affections and Their Use; And of the Three Furies.
[1222] [Rather, indignation, cupidity, and concupiscence, answering to our author’s “ira, cupiditas, libido.” The difference involved in this choice of words, I shall have occasion to point out.]
[1223] [Here he treats the “three furies” as not in themselves vices, but implanted for good purposes, and becoming “diseases” only when they pass the limits he now defines. Hence, while indignation is virtuous anger, it is not a disease; cupidity, while amounting to honest thrift, is not evil; and concupiscence, until it becomes “evil concupiscence” (επιθυμίαν κακὴν, Col. iii. 5), is but natural appetite, working to good ends.]
[1224] Desire. [See note 6, supra.]
[1225] Lust.
[1226] Anger.
[1227] [Quæ, nisi in metu cohibetur.]
[1228] [Assiduis verberibus. This might be rendered “careful punishments.”]
[1229] [Quod ignorantes Deum facere non possunt. In a later age Lactantius might have been charged with Semi-Pelagianism, many of his expressions about human nature being unstudied. But I note this passage, as, like many others, proving that he recognizes the need of divine grace.]
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