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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[1258] Pro pietate suâ. Augustine (De Civitate Dei, x. 1) explains the use of this expression as applied to God.
[1259] [Concerning the “planks after shipwreck,” see Tertullian, pp. 659 and 666, vol. iii., this series.]
[1260] Virg., Æneid, vi. 128.
[1261] Male.
[1262] Supervacuam, i.e., useless, without an object. [P. 171. n. 2.]
[1263] [May I be pardoned for asking my reader to refer to refer to The Task of the poet Cowper (book ii.): “All truth is from the sempiternal source,” etc. The concluding lines illustrate the kindly judgment of our author:—
“How oft, when Paul has served us with a text,
Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached!
Men that, if now alive, would sit content
And humble learners of a Saviour’s worth,
Preach it who might. Such was their love of truth,
Their thirst of knowledge, and their candour too.”
But turn to our author’s last sentence in cap. 17, p. 183, supra.]
[1264] Conscium.
[1265] De Offic., iii. 10.
[1266] Ibid., iii. 19.
[1267] Februis, a word used in the Sabine language for purgations. Others read “fibris,” entrails, offered in sacrifice.
[1268] There is an allusion to the altar of Hercules, called “ara maxima.” [Christian philosophy is heard at last among Latins.]
[1269] Quæ summum fastigium imponerent. The phrase properly means to complete a building by raising the pediment or gable. Hence its figurative use. [See cap. 2, p. 164.]
Chap. XXV.—Of Sacrifice, and of an Offering Worthy of God, and of the Form of Praising God.
[1270] Donum, a free-will offering or gift. See Ex. xxv. 2.
[1271] [i.e., “the Eucharist” as a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. And mark what follows, note 3, infra.]
[1272] [Nos ad justitiam esse natos.]
[1275] i.e., no known sins. Thus the Psalmist prays: “Cleanse thou me from my secret faults.” [So St. Paul, 1 Cor. iv. 4, where the archaic “by” = adversus.]
[1276] Satisfaciat, “let him make satisfaction by fruits worthy of repentance.”
[1277] The subject of the first and second books.
[1278] The subject of the sixth book.
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