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^[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.

^[1417] Ibid., 748.

^[1418] Postliminio. For the uses of this word, see Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

^[1419] Resignata est, properly “unsealed.”

^[1420] Virg., Æn., vi. 719.

Chap. XXIV.—Of the Renewed World.

^[1421] [This is “the first resurrection” as conceived of by the ancients, and the (Phil. iii. 11) ἐξανάστασις of St. Paul.]

^[1422] Profani a sacramentis.

^[1423] [This rationale of the Orphica and Sibyllina deserves thought.]

^[1424] Vector, i.e., the passenger, as opposed to one who sails in a ship of war.

^[1425] Virg., Bucol., iv. 21–45. The order of the lines is changed. [This, the famous Pollio, greatly influenced Constantine. See p. 140, note 7, supra.]

Chap. XXV.—Of the Last Times, and of the City of Rome.

^[1426] Consignatam teneri.

^[1427] [See p. 218, supra, and Victorinus, sparsim, infra.]

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