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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[881] [Lactantius has generally been sustained by Christian criticism in the censures thus passed upon Cicero, and in making the word religio out of religare His own words are desirable here, to be compared with those which he endeavors to refute (note 4, supra): “Diximus nomen religionis a vinculo pietatis esse deductum, quod hominem sibi Deus religarit,” etc.; i.e., it binds again what was loosed.]
[882] Lucret., i. 931.
[883] Religionum.
[884] i.e., those worshipped in public temples, and with public sacrifices, as opposed to the household gods of a family, and ancient as opposed to those newly received as gods.
[885] Virg., Æneid, viii. 187.
Chap. XXIX.—Of the Christian Religion, and of the Union of Jesus with the Father.
[886] [i.e., the Everlasting Father implies the Everlasting Son.]
[887] Ille, i.e., the Father.
[888] Hic, i.e., the Son.
[889] Thus, Heb. i. 3, the Son is described as the effulgence of the Father’s glory: ἀπαύγασμα τη̑ς δόξης αὐψου̑.
[890] In manu patris. Among the Romans the father had the power of life and death over his children.
[891] [Mundus una Dei domus. World here = universe. See vol. ii. p. 136, note 2, this series.]
[892] Ch. xiii.
[895] Ch. xix.
[897] Thus Christ Himself speaks, John x. 30, “I and my Father are one;” and iii. 35, “The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hand.”
Chap. XXX.—Of Avoiding Heresies and Superstitions, and What is the Only True Catholic Church.
[898] So Jer. ii. 13.
[899] See Matt. xviii. 7; Luke xvii. 1; 1 Cor. xi. 19; 2 Pet. ii. 1.
[900] Concordiam.
[901] Lubrica.
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