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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[1508] Resolvat.
[1509] [A succinct statement of the sixth command in its bearing on suicide.]
Chap. XL.—Of the Foolishness of the Philosophers.
[1510] Philosophia non potuit invenire. Other editions have, “philosophiam nemo potuit invenire.” [“The world by wisdom (σοφια) knew not God,” etc.; 1 Cor. i. 21.]
Chap. XLI.—Of True Religion and Wisdom.
[1511] i.e., the philosophers before mentioned.
Chap. XLII.—Of Religious Wisdom: the Name of Christ Known to None, Except Himself and His Father.
[1512] [This refers to the Spirit of the Father, as Cyprian (vol. v. p. 516), “My heart hath breathed out a good Word.”]
[1513] De suis spiritibus.
[1514] [Plato does not speak dogmatically, but with a marvellous intuition of truth. The Son is “begotten, not made.”]
[1515] This is an error. Both David and Solomon lived after the supposed taking of Troy.
[1517] In sæculi hujus consummatione.
Chap. XLIII.—Of the Name of Jesus Christ, and His Twofold Nativity.
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