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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[253] Emit rays.
[254] Metamorph., i. 430.
[255] [Discors concordia.]
[256] Sacramento Torches were lighted at marriage ceremonies, and the bride was sprinkled with water.
[257] The living principle.
[258] The artificer.
[259] Animal.
[260] Eliquaverit. “strained off,” “made liquid.”
[261] [So Izaak Walton: “Known only to him whose name is Wonderful.”]
Chap. XI.—Of Living Creatures, of Man; Prometheus, Deucalion, the ParcÆ.
[262] By species.
[263] Jumenta, “beasts of burthen,” as though derived from juvo, “to aid.”
[264] Homo, “man,” from humus, “the ground.” [P. 56, supra ]
[265] This image, or likeness of God, in which man was originally created, is truly described not by Plato, but by St. Paul: 2 Cor. iv. 6; Col. iii. 10; Eph. iv. 24.
[266] Another reading is, “Man is my image.”
[267] Sacrario, “the shrine.”
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