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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
Chap. XIX.—Of the Advent of Christ to Judgment, and of the Overcoming of the False Prophet.
[1406] [Not the eve of Easter, but that of the Nativity. This corroborates St. Chrysostom’s testimony concerning the observance of that feast in the West. See Opp., Serm. 287, tom. v. 804.]
Chap. XX.—Of the Judgment of Christ, of Christians, and of the Soul.
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