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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[31] Æn., vi. 724.
[32] Georg., iv. 221. [These passages seem borrowed from the Octavius of Minucius, cap. 19, vol. iv. p. 183.]
[33] [Fabricatorem mundi, rerum opificem.]
[34] [Concerning the Orphica, see vol. i. p. 178, note 1, and pp. 279, 290. For Sibyllina, Ibid., p. 169, note 9, and pp. 280–289. Note also vol. ii. p. 194, note 2, and T. Lewis, Plato cont. Ath., p. 99.]
[35] Virg., Georg., ii. 325–327.
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