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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.

[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.]

[1785] The philosophers wore long hair and cloaks. See Instit., iii. 25. [Needlessly repeated. See p. 95, supra; also 137.]

[1786] Præpostere, i.e., in a reversed order, putting the last first.

Chap. XXIII.—Of the Anger of God and the Punishment of Sins, and a Recital of the Verses of the Sibyls Respecting It; And, Moreover, a Reproof and Exhortation.

[1787] Metam., i. 256.

[1788] Moles operose laboret.

 

 

 

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