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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[826] Præcepta sua factis adimplendo.
[827] Virtutem in se recipere.
[828] Thus, Heb. viii. 2, Christ is spoken of as “a minister of the sanctuary, and the true tabernacle.”
[829] Having a human father and mother.
[830] μεσίτης, a mediator, one who stands between two parties to bring them together. Thus 1 Tim. ii. 5, “There is one God, and one mediator (μεσίτης) between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” In the Epistle to the Hebrews Christ is spoken of as the “mediator of the new covenant.” And Gal. iii. 20, “A mediator is not of one:” the very idea of a mediator implies that he stands between two parties as a reconciler.
[831] Emereri, “to earn or obtain.” The word is specially applied to soldiers who have served their time, and are entitled to their discharge.
[832] Pabulum.
[833] Omnibus numeris absoluta.
Chap. XXVI.—Of the Cross, and Other Tortures of Jesus, and of the Figure of the Lamb Under the Law.
[834] i.e., was shown by the event to be true, not doubtful or deceptive.
[835] Inania, “empty.”
[836] Figuram.
[837] Hactenus operata est.
[838] In eloquium solvit.
[839] See Matt. ix. 33, “The dumb spake, and the multitudes marvelled;” Mark vii. 37, “They were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: He maketh both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.”
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