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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[480] A shadow; outline, or resemblance.
[481] Lucretius, i. 65.
[482] Thus St. Paul, Col. iii. 2, exhorts us to set our affections on things above, not on things of the earth.
Chap. XXVIII.—Of True Religion and of Nature. Whether Fortune is a Goddess, and of Philosophy.
[483] [Quod si Deum naturam vocant quæ perversitas est naturam potius quam Deum nominare. Observe this terse maxim of our author. It rebukes the teachers and scientists of our day, who seem afraid to “look through nature up to nature’s God,” in their barren instruction. They go back to Lucretius, and call it progress!]
[484] To raise or stretch out the hand was an acknowledgment of defeat.
[485] [See p. 91, note 3, supra, and sparsim in this work.]
[486] Literally, “their accounts did not square.”
[487] Afficit, “presses and harasses.” Another reading is affligit, “casts to the ground.”
Chap. XXIX.—Of Fortune Again, and Virtue.
[488] Cicero, De Offic., ii. 6. The expressions are borrowed from the figure of a ship at sea.
[489] Æn., viii. 33.
[490] Sallust, Cat., viii.
[491] Chapter xvi.
[492] Satire x. 365: Nullum numen abest. Others read, Nullum numen habes. You have no divine power, O Fortune, if there is prudence, etc.
[493] Acad., i. 7. [Let our sophists feel this rebuke of Tully.]
[494] [A noble utterance from Christian philosophy, now first gaining the ear and heart of humanity.]
[495] Figmenta. [Rom. i. 21-23.]
[496] Thus St. Paul, 1 Cor. ii. 9: “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.”
[497] In its rewards.
[498] The seven wise men were, Thales, Pittacus, Bias, Solon, Cleobulus, Chilo, and Periander. To these some add Anacharsis the Scythian. [Vol. v. p. 11, supra. For Thales, vol. ii. p. 140.]
[499] This was the opinion of Pythagoras. See Book iii. 2.
Chap. II.—Where Wisdom is to Be Found; Why Pythagoras and Plato Did Not Approach the Jews.
[500] See 1 Cor. i. 20-22.
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