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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[1629] Pseudepigrapha O. F. Fritzsche, Lips., 1871, Codex Pseudepigr. Vet. Test., ed. 1722.; J. A. Fabricius, Messias Judæorum, Hilgenfeld, Lips., 1869; also Drummond, The Jewish Messiah; and compare Jellinek, Bet-ha-Midrash, six parts, 1857–73.
[1630] See the Greek of Constantine’s quotations in Heyne’s Virgil, excursus i. tom. i. p. 164.
[1631] Heyne (Lips., 1788), vol. i. pp. 66–70.
A Treatise on the Anger of God
[1632] [Of this Donatus, see (On the Persecutors) cap. 16, infra; also cap. 35. He was a confessor and sore sufferer under Diocletian.]
Chap. I.—Of Divine and Human Wisdom.
[1633] Simulavit: others read “dissimulavit,” concealed his knowledge.
Chap. II.—Of the Truth and Its Steps, and of God.
[1634] Revolvuntur in planum.
[1635] Thus our Lord Himself speaks, John xvii. 3: “This is life eternal, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.” [The Jehovah-Angel, vol. i. pp. 223–226, this series, and sparsim.]
[1636] Ad ruinam.
[1637] Ch. v. and vi. pp. 47, 48.
[1638] The temple built of living stones, 1 Pet. ii. 5.
[1640] Dum disputant; other editions read, “dum dissipant.”
Chap. IV.—Of God and His Affections, and the Censure of Epicurus.
[1641] [Ne illi vitium concederet etiam virtutis fecit expertem.]
[1642] [Disciple of Panætius the Rhodian, a Stoic, third century B.C.]
[1643] Verisimilitudine, i.e., likeness of truth.
[1644] Inexpugnabile, impregnable.
[1645] Commotio.
[1646] Epicurus: it seems to be spoken with some irony.
Chap. V.—The Opinion of the Stoics Concerning God; Of His Anger and Kindness.
[1647] Vivificare.
[1648] Promereri.
[1649] The Stoics. [Encountered first by St. Paul, Acts xvii. 18.]
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