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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[248] Apos. Const. (so-called), book ii. cap. 57. See Bingham, book viii. cap. 3, sec. 3; also vol. ii. note 1, p. 535, this series, and vol. iii. note 1, p. 31. So Cyril of Jerusalem, Augustine, and later Fathers. Bingham book xiii. cap. 8, sec. 15.]
[249] [In baptism, the renunciations were made with face turned to the west. Bingham, book xi. cap. 7, sec. 4.]
[250] Spatia; an expression derived from the chariot-race.
[251] A play upon the words Sol, the sun, and solus, alone.
[252] Antitheus, one who takes the place of God: as Antichrist, ἀντίχριστος, one who sets himself in the place of Christ.
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