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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.]
[539] αύτοπάτορα καὶ αυἠτομήτορα.
[540] Thus Isa. liii. 8: “Who shall declare His generation?”
[541] Cautum est.
[542] Thus λόγος includes the two senses of word and reason.
[543] There is great difficulty in translating this passage, on account of the double sense of spiritus (as in Greek, πνευ̑μα), including “spirit” and “breath.” It is impossible to express the sense of the whole passage by either word singly. There is the same difficulty with regard to πνευ̑μα, as in Heb. i. 7: “He maketh His angels spirits,” more correctly “winds.” See Delitzsch on Hebrews, and comp. Ps. civ. 4.
[544] Ad tradendam.
[545] Cœlestis arcani. See Rom. xvi. 25.
[546] Lactantius is speaking of the breath: he cannot refer to the soul, which he everywhere speaks of as immortal.
[547] Sensus.
[548] In our version, Ps. xxxiii. 6.
[549] Quoted from the Septuagint version.
[550] Ps. xlv. 1. [See vol. i. p. 213.]
[551] Ipsum.
[552] Ecclus. xxiv. 5-7. This book is attributed to Solomon by many of the Fathers, though it bears the title of the Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach.
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