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Minucius Felix
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[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.
[1829] “Are known as” is another reading.
[1830] Fatus.
[1831] Otherwise read, “both more truly.”
[1832] Some read, “I will speak at length.”
[1833] Probably a better reading is “strive for them.”
[1834] “Arridens,” but otherwise “arripiens,” scil. “snatching at,” suggesting possibly the idea of the martyrs chiding the delays of the executioners, or provoking the rush of the wild beasts.
[1835] Otherwise, “unhoped-for.” [This chapter has been supposed to indicate that the work was written in a time of persecution. Faint tokens of the same have been imagined also, in capp. 29 and 33, supra.]
[1836] This passage is peculiar; the original is, “Ut ingenium eorum perditæ mentis licentiæ potestatis liberæ nundinentur,” with various modifications of reading.
[1837] The probable reading here is, “You apply to a lifeless person, either if he has feeling, a torch; or, if he feels not, a garland.”
[1838] “We who do not,” etc., is a conjectural reading, omitting the subsequent “we.”
[1839] Otherwise read, “and I believe concerning God.”
[1840] [i.e., he will become a catechumen on the morrow.]
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