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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[1384] Liberum esse.
[1385] The word Sabbath means rest. [He derives it from שֶׁבַצ: but one wonders how these divers etymologies came into the use of Gentile believers. Compare vol. ii. Elucidation VIII. p. 443.]
[1386] Errantia.
[1387] [Efficere creduntur. Our author seems to guard himself against affirming the verity of the science of his times.]
[1388] Ps. xc. 4; see also 2 Pet. iii. 8.
[1389] Speciem gerere.
[1390] Determinat. [Compare p. 220, infra.]
Chap. XV.—Of the Devastation of the World and Change of the Empires.
[1391] [This could not have been ventured before Constantine’s time, and must have been bold even then. 2 Thess. ii. 7. P. 213, infra.]
[1392] [The Colosseum and its traditions may have influenced our author in this passage. See vol. iii. p. 108, supra.]
[1393] Juvenescere.
[1394] Materia.
[1395] [See p. 169, notes 1, 2, supra.]
[1396] Sub ambage; properly a “circumlocution.”
[1397] Alumnum veritatis. [P. 212, note 1, supra.]
CHAP. XVI.—OF THE DEVASTATION of the World, and Its Prophetic Omens.
[1398] Prodigiis. [These primitive interpretations of Daniel and St. John may be compared with the expositions of Victorinus, infra.]
[1399] Concisa.
[1400] [P. 210, note 2, supra Tuba spargens mirum sonum.]
Chap. XVII.—Of the False Prophet, and the Hardships of the Righteous, and His Destruction.
[1401] [A final apparition of Elijah was anticipated by primitive believers, who regarded Mal. i. 5 as only partially fulfilled in the Baptist and the typical judgment of Jerusalem and the Jews under Vespasian. See Enoch and Elias, vol. v. p. 213; also iii. 591.]
[1402] Rev. xiii.; 2 Thess. ii.
[1403] Pressura et contritio.
[1404] Exquisitis cruciatibus.
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