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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[1764] Deo subjacet.
Chap. XIX.—Of the Soul and Body, and of Providence.
[1765] Others read “Cimon.” If the reading Timon be retained, the reference is not to Timon who is called “the Misanthrope,” but to Timon the philosopher of Phlius, who lived in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus, and belonged to the sect of the Sceptics.
[1766] Cedetne huic impune.
[1767] Disceptator.
Chap. XX.—Of Offences, and the Mercy of God.
[1768] Abdicati.
[1769] Constat.
[1770] Ovid., Metam., iii. 153.
[“Ultima semper
Expectanda dies homini est; dicique beatus
Ante obitum nemo,” etc.]
[1771] [The degradation of the mind of man to the worship of stocks and stones impresses our author as against nature.]
Chap. XXI.—Of the Anger of God and Man.
[1772] Temporalis.
[1773] Mentis impos, i.e., not having possession of his mind, opposed to “mentis compos.” Some editions add, “in bile.”
[1774] Ad præsens.
[1775] As supposed to be the seat of the passions.
[1776] [Ps. iv. 4, Vulgate, and Ephes., as below.]
[1777] Rebus communibus.
[1778] Temporalem.
[1779] Præsentaneâ. The word is applied to a remedy which operates instantaneously.
[1780] See Eph. iv. 26.
[1781] Ad præsens.
[1782] Resipiscendi.
Chap. XXII.—Of Sins, and the Verses of the Sibyls Respecting Them Recited.
[1783] Immobilem.
[1784] [Book i. concluding chapters.]
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