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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[10] i.e. of Firmium.
[11] [I see no force in this suggestion. Quite the reverse. He could not then anticipate anything but worse sufferings.]
[12] [To supplement, rather.]
[13] In an ancient ms. at Turin.
[14] Lord Hailes’ translation has been adopted in the present edition.
[15] De Paschâ.
[16] It has an allusion to the adoration of the Cross. [Hence must be referred to a period subsequent to the pseudo-council called Deutero-Nicene. Comp. vol. iv. note 6, p. 191; and see Smith’s History of the Christian Church in the First Ten Centuries, vol. i. p. 451, ed. Harpers, New York.]
[17] The Enigmas have not been included in the present translation, for the reason mentioned.
[18] The title prefixed to them in the mss. is Firmianus Symposius (written also Symphosius) Cælius. See Dr. Smith’s Dictionary of Biography, under the names Firmianus and Lactantius.
[19] This question is fully discussed by Dr. Lardner in his Credibility of the Gospel History, Works, vol. iii. [p. 516. The whole chapter (lxv.) on Lactantius deserves study].
[20] [Which reduces many of Virgil’s finest and most Homeric passages to mere song and ballad, and sacrifices all their epic dignity.]
Preface.—of what great value the knowledge of the truth is and always has been.
[21] [This, St. Augustine powerfully illustrates. See Confessions, lib. iii. cap 3. Note also Ib., lib. ix. cap 5.]
Chap. I.— of religion and wisdom.
[22] [It thrills me to compare this modest tribute of Christian confidence, with Justin’s unheeded appeal to the Stoical Antonine.]
[23] [Pilate is answered at last out of the Roman court itself .]
[24] ::blank::
[“How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose.”—Milton, Comus.]
Chap. II.—That there is a providence in the affairs of men.
[25] [Ingeniously introduced, and afterward very forcibly expanded.]
Chap. III.—Whether the universe is governed by the power of one god or of many.
[26] [A hint to Cæsar himself, the force of which began soon after very sorely to be felt in the empire.]
[27] Cunei; properly, soldiers arranged in the shape of wedge.
Chap. IV.—That the one god was foretold even by the prophets.
[28] [Not David merely, nor only other kings of the Hebrews. Elucidation I.]
Chap. V.—Of the testimonies of poets and philosophers.
[29] πρωτόγονον.
[30] φάνητα, the appearer.
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