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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[805] Citra.
[806] Professi Dei. The expression denotes one who shows himself in his real character, without any veiling or concealment. There is another reading—“professi Deum.”
[807] Divinitate.
Chap. XXIII.—Of Giving Precepts, and Acting.
[808] Ipse præceptis suis fidem detrahat.
[809] Contumacibus.
[810] Præsentibus factis.
[811] [See Augustine, quoted in elucidation, vol. vi. p. 541.]
[812] Præstare.
[813] Abest ab iis fides.
[814] Leves.
[815] [What neither Platonists nor Censors, in their judgments, could effect by their sophia, the crucified Jesus has done by His Gospel. The impotence of philosophers as compared with the Carpenter’s Son, to change the morals of nations, cannot be gainsaid. See Young’s Christ of History ]
[816] Præsenti virtute.
Chap. XXIV.—The Overthrowing of the Arguments Above Urged by Way of Objection.
[817] Propria.
[818] Tabe corporis.
[819] Thus our Lord tells us that flesh and blood cannot reveal to us mysteries.
[820] Visceribus.
[821] Omnium excusationum vias. [Here is the defect of Cicero’s philosophy. See William Wilberforce, Practical Christianity, p. 25, ed. London, 1815.]
[822] Prævius.
[823] Thus St. Paul complains, Rom. vii. 15: “What I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I;” and ver. 21, “I find then a law that when I would do good, evil is present with me.” But (viii. 3) he says, “What the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, condemned sin in the flesh.”
[824] Cum ratione.
[825] This is urged as an excuse by him to whom the precept is addressed. In this and the following sentences there is a dialogue between the teacher and the taught.
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