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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[934] [Intima, i.e., of an esoteric character, known only to those within the school or sect.]
[935] Cui fuerat assensus. Other editions read “accensus,” i.e., reckoned among.
[936] Induerat.
[937] Sacramenti.
[938] Fingendi.
[939] Undique quadrat.
[940] Hierocles, referred to in chapter 2.
[941] Apollonius, a celebrated Pythagorean philosopher of Tyana: his works and doctrines are recorded by Philostratus, from whom Lactantius appears to have derived his account. The pagans compared his life and actions with those of Christ. [See Origen, vol. iv. p. 591, this series.]
[942] Apuleius, a native of Madaura, a city on the borders of the province of Africa, he professed the Platonic philosophy. He was reputed a magician by the Christian writers. [Author of The Golden Ass, a most entertaining but often indecent satire, which may have inspired Cervantes, and concerning which see Warburton, Div. Legat., vol. ii. p. 177 (et alibi), ed. London, 1811.]
[943] Affectavit divinitatem.
[944] Noster.
[945] Sacramentum.
[946] With one spirit, “uno spiritu.”
[947] [But Apollonius was set up as an Antichrist by Philostratus as Cudworth supposes, and so other men of learning. But no student should overlook l.ardner’s valuable commentary on this character, and his quotations from Bishop Parker of Oxford, Credib., vol. vii. p. 486, and also p. 508, cap. 29, and appendix.]
[948] Deliramenta.
[949] See book ii. ch. 23.
[950] Cf. Matt. vii. 15.
[951] Epilogus.
Chap. IV.—Why This Work Was Published, and Again of Tertullian and Cyprian.
[952] [Future Writers. This laying of an anchor to windward is characteristic of Lactantius.]
[953] [See elucidations, vol. iii. pp. 56–60, this series.]
[954] Oblatrantem atque obstrepentem veritati. These words are taken from Cyprian, vol. v. p. 457, this series.
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