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[1082] The verb is in the singular number.
[1083] Æneid, i. 16–20.
[1084] Conington.
[1085] Operati plerique.
[1086] Dediticius.
[1087] Apollo; comp. The Apology, c. xiv., p. 30.
[1088] See Herodot. i. 50.
[1089] Veluti tueri.
[1090] Religiositas.
[1091] Superstitio.
[1092] Frugi.
[1093] Temeraria.
[1094] Læsis.
[1095] Morabantur. We have taken this word as if from “mores” (character). Tertullian often uses the participle “moratus” in this sense.
[1096] Et depropitiorum.
[1097] Volutavit.
[1098] Compare The Apology, c. xxvi.
[1099] We have treated this “tanquam” and its clause as something more than a mere simile. It is, in fact, an integral element of the supremacy which the entire sentence describes as conferred on the Romans by the Almighty.
[1100] That is, the Christians, who are well aware of God’s purposes as declared in prophecy. St. Paul tells the Thessalonians what the order of the great events subsequent to the Roman power was to be: the destruction of that power was to be followed by the development and reign of Antichrist; and then the end of the world would come.
Appendix. A Fragment Concerning the Execrable Gods of the Heathen.
[1101] Dæmons. Gr. δαίμων, which some hold to = δαήμων, “knowing,” “skilful,” in which case it would come to be used of any superhuman intelligence; others, again, derive from δαίω, “to divide, distribute,” in which case it would mean a distributor of destinies; which latter derivation and meaning Liddell and Scott incline to.
[1102] Actum: or “career.”
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