Lactantius

Footnotes

^[649] Tunica talaris, a garment reaching to the ankles; in Greek, ποδήρης.

^[650] Cidarim; an Eastern word denoting a head-dress worn by the Persian kings, or, as in this passage, the mitre of the Jewish high priest.

^[651] Not the Great, but the tenth, a much earlier king of Macedon.

^[652] i.e., Joshua the son of Nun, as he is generally called. [Justin, vol. i. pp. 174, 266.]

^[653] Ambureretur. The word is applied to anything which is partly burned, burnt around, scorched. Hence Cicero jestingly speaks of Munatius Plancus, at whose instigation the people set fire to the senate-house, as tribunus ambustus. Cic., pro Milone

^[654] i.e., the word titio, “a firebrand,” is thus used.

^[655] i.e., authority to judge. [Ps. lxxii. 1 and John v. 22.]

^[656] After these words some editions, “principem angelorum,” the chief of angels.

Chap. XV.—Of the Life and Miracles of Jesus, and Testimonies Concerning Them.

^[657] Cum primus cœpit adolescere.

^[658] Aboleret.

^[659] Not of His own flesh, but of human nature. Our Lord Himself gives a better explanation of His baptism, in His reply to the Baptist, who at first forbade him: “Suffer it to be so now, for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness” (Matt. iii. 15).

^[660] Perfusione.

^[661] Compare Matt. iii. 17 with Ps. ii. 7.

^[662] [“A brilliant dove” is the idea. Ps. lxviii. 13. Comp. Justin, vol. i. note 6, p. 243.]

^[663] Portentificas.

^[664] Pedum vitio afflictos.

^[665] In eloquium sermonemque solvebat.

^[666] Insinuabat auditum.

^[667] Aspersos maculis, i.e., lepers.

^[668] Except in the case of the blind man, whose eyes He anointed with clay. John ix. 9.

^[669] Isa. xxxv. 3-6. The passage is quoted from the Septuagint. The authorized English version follows the Hebrew, “Strengthen ye the weak hands,” etc.

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