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Minucius Felix
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[1808] Otherwise read, “But how great a fault it is.”
[1809] “To urge them” is the reading in some text.
[1810] “Of all men” is another reading.
[1811] Otherwise, “Hippona.”
[1812] Otherwise, “devote,” and other readings.
[1813] [A reverent allusion to the Crucified, believed in and worshipped as God.]
[1815] [See Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho, chap. lxxxix. et seqq. vol. i. p. 244. S.]
[1816] [See Reeves’s Apologies (ut supra), vol. ii. p. 144, note. S.]
[1817] By medicaments and drinks.
[1818] [Fronto is called “our Cirtensian” in cap. ix. supra; and this suggests that the Octavius was probably written in Cirta, circaa.d. 210. See supra, p. 178.]
[1819] According to some editions, “conscience.”
[1820] [Minucius is blamed for not introducing more Scripture! He relates his friend’s argument with a scoffing Pagan. How could Octavius have used the Scriptures with such an antagonist?]
[1821] [Wars of the Jews, b. v. cap. 9, etc.]
[1822] This passage is very indefinite, and probably corrupt; the meaning is anything but satisfactory. The general meaning is given freely thus: “Further, it is a vulgar error to doubt or disbelieve a future conflagration of the world.”
[1823] This passage is very variously read, without substantial alteration of the sense.
[1824] Otherwise, “to God Himself alone, the artificer.”
[1825] This is otherwise read, “the work of the mimic or buffoon.”
[1826] Scil. “by burning.”
[1827] [1 Cor. xv. 36, Job xiv. 7-15.]
[1828] πῦρ σωφρονοῦν is an expression of Clemens Alexandrinus, so that there is no need for the emendation of “rapiens” instead of “sapiens,” suggested by one editor.
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