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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[904] The Phrygians were the followers of Montanus, who was the founder of a sect in the second century. He is supposed to have been a native of Ardaba, on the borders of Phrygia, on which account his followers were called the Phrygian or Cataphrygian heretics. Montanus gave himself out for the Paraclete or Comforter whom our Lord promised to send. The most eminent of his followers were Priscilla and Maximilla. [But see vol. ii. pp. 4 and 5; also vol. iii. and iv. this series, and notes on Tertullian, passim ]
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