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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[1407] The reference is to Ps. i. 5: “The ungodly shall not stand in the judgment.” They shall indeed arise, but it will be to “the resurrection of damnation.” See Dan. xii. 2; John v. 28, 29; Acts xxiv. 15.
[1408] Good and bad actions will not be compared by reference to number: “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”—Jas. ii. 10. [The figure, however, is not dissimilar in Job xxxi. 6. We must be judged by our works, though saved by faith in Christ.]
[1409] In nihilum resolvi.
[1410] Virg., Æneid, vi. 735.
[1411] [1 Cor. iii. 13-15. An approximation to this truth is recognised by our author in a heathen poet. See p. 217, n. 2.]
[1412] Virg., Æneid, vi. 702.
Chap. XXI.—Of the Torments and Punishments of Souls.
[1413] Cum trepidatione mobili. [See vol. vi. p. 375, note 1.]
[1414] Perstringentur igni atque amburentur. [See p. 216, n. 5, supra.] This idea of passing through flames of the final judgment has in it nothing in common with “purgatory” as a place and as a punishment from which admission into heaven may be gained before judgment.]
[1415] [See vol. iii. p. 59, supra, Elucidation X.]
Chap. XXII.—Of the Error of the Poets, and the Return of the Soul from the Lower Regions.
[1416] Virg., Æn., vi. 266.
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