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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[205] The Son of God, afterwards spoken of.
[206] By perseverance. There seems to be a contrast between the Son, who remained stedfast, and the evil spirits who fell.
[207] διάβολος, “slanderer or accuser.” The Greek and Latin words employed by Lactantius have the same meaning.
[208] Providence.
[209] Book iv. ch. vi., etc. [Deus, igitur, machinator constitutorque rerum, etc.]
[210] Lying under; answering to the Greek expression ὑποκειμένη ὕλη, subject matter.
[211] Not now found in the treatise which bears this title.
[212] Capable of proof.
[213] Materia; perhaps from “mater,” mother stuff—matter out of which anything is composed.
[214] The moulder. The ancients made statues of wax or clay, as well as of wood, ivory, and marble.
[215] Contradict.
[216] Alluding to the well-known practise of the Academics, viz., of arguing on both sides of a question.
[217] The founder or preparer of the material.
[218] [Quam vim potuit habere nullo dante?]
[219] Providentia.
[220] Sibi illam dedit. There is another reading, illa sibi illam dedit, but it does not give so good a sense.
[221] A proverbial expression, signifying “to get out of one difficulty by getting into another.” The passage in the text is a quotation from Terence, Phorm , v. 2. 15. [Not in some editions of our author; e.g., Basil, 1521.]
[222] Stand firm and stedfast.
[223] Which does not exist there, from whence it is sought.
[224] Fountain.
[225] Distruitur, “pulled to pieces.” The word is thus used by Cicero.
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