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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[518] The same is asserted by Justin Martyr [vol. i. p. 277], Eusebius, Augustine, and other writers. See Augustine, De Civitate Dei, book xviii. 37. Pythagoras, one of the most ancient of the Greek philosophers, was contemporary with the latest prophets.
[519] Literally, “sends.” The passage appears to be corrupt: ὑποπίπτει has been suggested instead of ὑποπέμπει, “falls under perception,” “is an object of perception.”
[520] Prov. viii. 22-31. Lactantius quotes from the Septuagint.
[521] According to the Hebrew, “possessed me in the beginning,” and so the authorized version.
[522] Fines inhabitabiles. Other editions read terras inhabitabiles, “uninhabitable lands.”
Chap. VII.—Of the Name of Son, and Whence He is Called Jesus and Christ.
[523] Literally, “whose first nativity not only preceded the world.” He speaks of the eternal generation of the Son, as distinguished from His incarnation, which he afterwards speaks of as His second nativity. [See vol. vi. p. 7.]
[524] Or, perceiving.
[525] Jesus, that is, [Joshua = ] Saviour.
[526] Suetonius speaks of Christ as Chrestus. The Christians also were called Chrestians, as Tertullian shows in his Apology. The word χρηστός has the signification of kind, gentle, good. [Vol. i. p. 163.]
[527] Each has reference to Christ, as He is King and Priest. Of the anointing of kings, see 1 Sam., and of priests, Lev. viii. [Of prophets, 1 Kings xix. 16.] The priesthood of Christ is most fully set forth in the Epistle to the Hebrews.
[528] Thus Horatius, Carm., i. 35, “Purpurei metuunt tyranni;” and Gray, Ode to Adversity, “Purple tyrants vainly groan.”
[529] χρισαν.
[530] Interpretatæ sunt, used here in a passive sense.
[531] ἠλειμμένος.
[532] ἀλείφεσθαι.
[533] Jer. i. 5. It can only be in a secondary sense that this prophecy refers to Christ; in its primary sense it refers to the prophet himself, as the context plainly shows.
[534] This passage is not found in Jeremiah, or in the Bible.
[536] Regeneratus est.
[537] Denuo, i.e., de nova, “afresh.”
[538] Societate alterius. [Profanely arguing to God from man. Humanity has a procreant power of a lower sort; but the ideal is divine, and needs no process like that of man’s nature.]
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