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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.

[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.”

[268] Father’s brother.

[269] Gradus.

[270] Prophetical writings.

[271] Book i. [ch. 11, p. 22, supra].

[272] The title ὁ δημιουργος, the Architect, or Creator, is used by Plato and Hermes.

[273] Georg., ii. 341. [Terrea progenies duris caput extulit arvis.]

[274] Terrea. Another reading is ferrea, “the race of iron.”

[275] The origin.

[276] The fable of the three Parcæ—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos—is derived from Hesiod.

[277] Frailty.

Chap. XII.—That Animals Were Not Produced Spontaneously, But by a Divine Arrangement, of Which God Would Have Given Us the Knowledge, If It Were Advantageous for Us to Know It.

 

 

 

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