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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.]
[1650] The Epicureans. [Ibid.]
[1651] In eo enim summa omnis et cardo religionis pietatisque versatur.
[1652] [This fear of the Lord is filial, not servile; and this anger is likewise twofold, including fatherly and corrective indignation, and the wrath of the magistrate, which inflicts penalty and retribution. Compare Ps. vii. 11; also p. 104, note 1, supra.]
Chap. VII.—Of Man, and the Brute Animals, and Religion.
[1653] The reason of man, man’s rational nature, recognizes the divine reason, i.e., God. [Confert cum Deo vultum et rationem ratio cognoscit. Hence Milton’s “human face divine.”]
[1654] De Legibus, i. 8.
[1655] Incondita, “unformed, or rude.” [See p. 77, supra.]
[1656] [Vol. vi. note 3, p. 452, this series.]
[1657] Ad lusum gestiunt.
[1658] Demulcent.
[1659] Virg., Æn., iv. 402.
[1660] Virg., Georg., iv. 155.
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