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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[338] Surrounded, shut in.
[339] Prævaricatores. The word is properly applied to an advocate who is guilty of collusion with his antagonist, and thus betrays his client.
[340] Womanly Fortune.
[341] Unbelievers.
[342] Governments.
[343] At their nod, or suggestion.
[344] They presage.
[345] That which was necessary according to the purpose and arrangement of God.
[346] Tensa; a carriage on which the images of the gods were carried to the circus at the Circensian games.
[347] Deserved nothing, had nothing worthy of punishment. Varro and Paulus Æmilius were the two consuls who commanded at Cannæ. Varro escaped, Paulus was slain.
[348] Virg., Æn., viii. 292.
[349] Ibid., i. 19.
[350] Contempt.
[351] They have made old.
Chap. XVIII.—Of the Patience and Vengeance of God, the Worship of Demons, and False Religions.
[352] Jerome says “Great is the anger of God when He does not correct sins, but punishes blindness with blindness. On this very account God sends strong delusion, as St. Paul writes to the Thessalonians, that they should believe a lie, that they all may be damned who have not believed the truth. They are unworthy of the living fountain who dig for themselves cisterns.”
[353] Virg., Æn., iv. 464. Some read priorum instead of piorum
[354] Roll themselves.
[355] Addico, “to adjudge,” is the legal term, expressing the sentence by which the prætor gave effect to the right which he had declared to exist.
[356] [Let this be noted.]
[357] Mancipo. The word implies the making over or transferring by a formal act of sale. Debtors, who were unable to satisfy the demands of their creditors, were made over to them, and regarded as their slaves. They were termed addicti. Our Lord said (John viii. 34), “Whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin.” Thus also St. Paul, Rom. vi. 16, 17.
Chap. XIX.—Of the Worship of Images and Earthly Objects.
[358] [Quare non est dubium quin religio nulla sit ubicunque simulacrum est. Such is the uniform Ante-Nicene testimony.]
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