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[119] [A reference to kneeling, which see the de Corona cap. 3, infra. Christians are represented as standing at prayer, in the delineations of the Catacombs. But, see Nicene Canon, xx.]
[122] [Cap. xxxix. infra. And see Kaye, pp. 20, 348. A subject of which more hereafter.]
[123] [A familiar story of Alexander is alluded to.]
[124] [Note this reference to a shameless custom of the heathen in Rome and elsewhere.]
[125] [See cap. l. and Note on cap. xl. infra.]
[126] Commodus.
[127] To murder Pertinax.
[128] Tigerius and Parthenius were among the murderers of Commodus.
[129] [Cap. ix. p. 25, note 1 supra. Again, Christian democracy, “honouring all men.”]
[130] [Elucidation VI.]
[131] [Elucidation VII.]
[132] [Chap. xxxii. supra p. 43.]
[133] [An argument for Days of Public Thanksgiving, Fasting and the like.]
[134] [On ordinary Sundays, “they laid by in store,” apparently: once a month they offered.]
[135] [A precious testimony, though the caviller asserts that afterwards the heathen used this expression derisively.]
[136] [Or, perhaps—“One is prompted to stand forth and bring to God, as every one can, whether from the Holy Scriptures, or of his own mind”—i.e. according to his taste.]
[137] [Christianos ad leonem. From what class, chiefly, see cap. xxxv. supra. Elucidation VIII.]
[138] [Elucidation IX. See Kaye, p. 361.]
[139] [The occupation of a soldier was regarded as lawful therefore. But see, afterwards, the De Corona cap. xi.]
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