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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[227] Ch. 3 and 7. [See pp. 11, 17, supra.]
[228] [Multo absurdior.]
[229] Lactantius seems to refer not to the true prophets, but to those of other nations, such as Orpheus and Zoroaster, or the magi of the Persians, the gymnosophists of the Indians, or the Druids of the Gauls. St. Augustine often makes mention of these. It would seem inconsistent to mention Moses and the prophets of God with the prophets of the heathens. [Compare, however, “Christian analogies,” etc., in Justin. See vol. i. 169; also Ibid., pp. 182, 283–286.]
[230] Pari voce.
[231] The work of the world, and the workmanship of God.
[232] Qui sunt principes omnis disciplinæ. There is another reading: quæ sunt principes omnium disciplinæ, “which are the leading sects of all.”
[233] Thales said that the world was the work of God.
[234] This statement is incorrect, as Plato was born b.c. 430, and Epicurus b.c. 337.
[235] There is probably an allusion to the Cynics.
[236] Conglobatam. Another reading is, quàm materiâ providentiam conglobatam.
[237] Hinge.
[238] Abyss.
[239] As often as he is an Epicurean.
[240] The last hand.
[241] Metamorph , book i.
[242] Fabrica. The word is also used to denote the exercise of skill in workmanship.
[243] Cæmenta, rough stones from the quarry.
[244] Pertaining to time, as opposed to eternal.
[245] Looking into.
[246] A curious and profane eagerness.
Chap. X.—Of the World, and Its Parts, the Elements and Seasons.
[247] Secret writings.
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