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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[971] Hominum. Another reading is “omnium,” of all, as opposed to the few.
[972] Propter humanitatem.
[973] Altiores se…faciebant. Another reading is, “altiores cæteris…fulgebant.”
[974] [Compare Cicero, De Officiis, i. 14, with Luke xxii. 25.]
Chap. VII.—Of the Coming of Jesus, and Its Fruit; And of the Virtues and Vices of that Age.
[975] [To establish this, would be to go far in a theodicy to reconcile the permission of evil with the divine goodness.]
[976] Patientia.
[977] Pati.
[978] Caput obvolutum. This appears to be the title of a lost declamation of Quintilian.
[979] Inanem.
[980] [This is not consistent with the Church’s allowance of matrimony to women past child-bearing, nor with the language of the Apostle, 1 Cor. vii. 2-7. See my note (2), vol. ii. p. 262.]
[981] Si ab omnibus in legem Dei conjuraretur. The word “conjuro,” contrary to its general use, is here employed in a good sense.
[982] [See ed. Klotz, vol. ii. p. 403, Lips., 1869.]
Chap. IX.—Of the Crimes of the Wicked, and the Torture Inflicted on the Christians.
[983] Virg., Æn., ii. 355.
[984] Ter., Andr., i. 1, 41.
[985] The Jewish people. Thus St. Paul speaks, Acts xxvi. 6: “I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers.”
[986] i.e., the Christian religion.
[987] Mactant.
[988] Desperati, equivalent to παράβολοι, a word borrowed from combats with wild beasts, and applied to Christians as being ready to devote their lives to the cause of God.
[989] There is an allusion to the punishment of parricides, who were enclosed in a bag with a dog, a serpent, an ape, and a cock, and thrown into the sea.
[990] Patientia, in a bad sense. [The text of the translator gives “endurance,” for which I venture to substitute as above.]
[991] Contra fas omne.
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