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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[1487] Lib. vi. 1.
[1488] Propter quem homines fecisse dicatur Deus. Others read, “Quem propter homines,” etc.
[1489] Quasi mutuo adversoque fulta nisu consistere.
[1490] Appositione. Others read “oppositione.”
[1491] [Philosophically, not dogmatically, asserted. God’s wisdom in permitting evil (which originated in the fall of free intellects) to last for a season, will vindicate itself in judgment.]
[1492] Philosophy.
Chap. XXXI.—Of Knowledge and Supposition.
[1493] De Offic., ii. 2.
Chap. XXXII.—Of the Sects of Philosophers, and Their Disagreement.
[1494] i.e., philosophy.
Chap. XXXIII.—What is the Chief Good to Be Sought in Life.
[1495] In ipso cardine. [Horace, Sat., book ii. 6, 71–76.]
Chap. XXXIV.—That Men are Born to Justice.
[1496] Some editions repeat the words “summum bonum,” but these words appear to obstruct the sense.
[1497] [i.e., philosophically; our moral constitution dictating what is just.]
Chap. XXXV.—That Immortality is the Chief Good.
[1498] Non mortalitate.
[1499] λογικὴ, philosophia. Under this is included everything connected with the system of speaking.
Chap. XXXVI.—Of the Philosophers,—Namely, Epicurus and Pythagoras.
[1500] Providere.
[1501] Inter doctos homines. Others read “indoctos homines,” but this does not convey so good a meaning.
Chap. XXXVII.—Of Socrates and His Contradiction.
[1502] [Other and more creditable explanations are given. Socrates recognized the rites of his countrymen. See Tayler Lewis in a noble chapter, Plato, etc., p. 250.]
Chap. XXXVIII.—Of Plato, Whose Doctrine Approaches More Nearly to the Truth.
[1503] Proprius.
[1504] Alienum.
[1505] Reseravit. Others read “reservavit.”
[1506] [A republic of “philosophers” (credula gens) was set up in France (a.d. 1793), to prove their idiotic incompetency for practical affairs.]
Chap. XXXIX.—Of Various Philosophers, and of the Antipodes.
[1507] i.e., the Cynics.
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