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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[1299] i.e., earthquakes.
[1300] Siccaverunt: rarely used in a neuter sense.
[1301] Primam terræ faciem: as opposed to the inner depths.
[1302] De Rer. Nat., v. 157–166.
[1303] Quòd si ratio ei quadraret.
[1304] Little images, sigilla.
[1305] Rationem.
[1306] i.e., atoms.
[1307] Corrupit.
[1308] Æqualis.
[1309] Interfusio.
[1310] Aspiratio.
[1311] [The parables of nature are admirably expounded by Jones of Nayland. See his Zoologica Ethica, his Book of Nature, and his Moral Character of the Monkey, vols. iii., xi., and xii., Works, London, 1801.]
[1312] Asclepiades was a Christian writer, and contemporary of Lactantius, to whom he wrote a book on the providence of God. [According to Eusebius, a bishop of this name presided at Antioch from a.d. 214 to 220; but this is evidently another.]
Chap. V.—Of the Creation of Man, and of the Arrangement of the World, and of the Chief Good.
[1313] Illis non quadrare rationem.
[1314] Sacramentum.
[1315] De transverso jugulasset. The Academics, affirming that nothing was certain, opposed the tenets of the other philosophers, who maintained their own opinions respectively.
[1316] [The law of his being is stated in Bacon’s words: “Homo naturæ minister et interpres,” Nov. Org., i. 1. It is his duty to comprehend what he expounds, and to lend his voice to nature in the worship of God. See the Benedicite, or “Song of the Three Children,” in the apocryphal Bible.]
[1317] Vexabilibus.
[1318] Varia. Others read, “fæcunditatem variam generandi.”
[1319] Mereamur.
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