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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.

[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.]

Chap. XXX.—The Conclusion of the Things Before Spoken; And by What Means We Must Pass from the Vanity of the Philosophers to True Wisdom, and the Knowledge of the True God, in Which Alone are Virtue and Happiness.

[494] [A noble utterance from Christian philosophy, now first gaining the ear and heart of humanity.]

Chap. I.—Of the Former Religion of Men, and How Error Was Spread Over Every Age, and of the Seven Wise Men of Greece.

[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.

[501] [“Thou art a God that hidest thyself,” Isa xlv. 15. Wisdom must be searched after as hidden treasure.]

[502] See Eph. i. 9, 10; Col. i. 26, 27. [This is a mysterious truth: God’s election of men and nations has been according to their desire to be enlightened. Christ must be the “Desire of Nations.”]

[503] The last time is the last dispensation, the time of the new covenant. Heb. i. 2.

[504] See Isa. lv. 4: “Behold, I have given Him for a leader and commander to the people.”

[505] Matt. xxi.

Chap. III.—Wisdom and Religion Cannot Be Separated: the Lord of Nature Must Necessarily Be the Father of Every One.

[506] [Iidem sunt doctores sapientiæ qui et De. sacerdotes.]

[507] [The satirist, not Cicero’s friend; Nat. Deor., iii.]

[508] Fathers in ancient times had the greatest power over their children, so that they had the right of life and death, as masters had over their slaves.

[509] Pater familias—a title given to the master of a household, whether he had sons or not; the slaves of a house were called familia

 

 

 

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