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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[5] He borrows from Justin, vol. i. note 1, p. 186.
[6] e.g., Thomas, vol. vi. p. 158.
[7] While Lactantius was tutor to his son.
[8] See his Address to the Assembly of the Saints, preserved by Eusebius.
[9] William Fletcher, D.D. head master of Queen Elizabeth’s School, Wimborne, Dorset.
[10] i.e. of Firmium.
[11] [I see no force in this suggestion. Quite the reverse. He could not then anticipate anything but worse sufferings.]
[12] [To supplement, rather.]
[13] In an ancient ms. at Turin.
[14] Lord Hailes’ translation has been adopted in the present edition.
[15] De Paschâ.
[16] It has an allusion to the adoration of the Cross. [Hence must be referred to a period subsequent to the pseudo-council called Deutero-Nicene. Comp. vol. iv. note 6, p. 191; and see Smith’s History of the Christian Church in the First Ten Centuries, vol. i. p. 451, ed. Harpers, New York.]
[17] The Enigmas have not been included in the present translation, for the reason mentioned.
[18] The title prefixed to them in the mss. is Firmianus Symposius (written also Symphosius) Cælius. See Dr. Smith’s Dictionary of Biography, under the names Firmianus and Lactantius.
[19] This question is fully discussed by Dr. Lardner in his Credibility of the Gospel History, Works, vol. iii. [p. 516. The whole chapter (lxv.) on Lactantius deserves study].
[20] [Which reduces many of Virgil’s finest and most Homeric passages to mere song and ballad, and sacrifices all their epic dignity.]
Preface.—of what great value the knowledge of the truth is and always has been.
[21] [This, St. Augustine powerfully illustrates. See Confessions, lib. iii. cap 3. Note also Ib., lib. ix. cap 5.]
Chap. I.— of religion and wisdom.
[22] [It thrills me to compare this modest tribute of Christian confidence, with Justin’s unheeded appeal to the Stoical Antonine.]
[23] [Pilate is answered at last out of the Roman court itself .]
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