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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[955] Rudem.
[956] Caligaret.
[957] [This censure of Cyprian fully exculpates Minucius, Arnobius, and others, superficially blamed for their few quotations from Holy Writ. Also, it explains our author’s quotations from the Sibyl, etc.]
Chap. V.—There Was True Justice Under Saturnus, But It Was Banished by Jupiter.
[958] [Striking is the language of the Pollio (“Redit et Virgo,” etc.) in which the true Virgin seems to be anticipated.]
[959] Ulla. Another reading is “illâ,” as though there were a reference to the family of Saturnus.
[960] Germanicus Cæsar, the grandson of Augustus, translated in verse a part of the poems of Aratus. [See p. 36, supra.]
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