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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[902] [N.B.—The Callistians, Novatians, etc.; vol. v. Elucidation XIV. p. 160; and Ibid., p. 319, 321–333.]
[903] Depravati sunt.
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