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[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.]
[140] [An interesting fact as to the burial-rites of Early Christians. As to incense, see cap. xxx. supra. p. 42.]
[141] An index of the growth of Christianity.
[142] [An appeal so defiant that its very boldness confirms this tribute to the character of our Christian fathers, p. 42.]
[143] [Tertullian’s exposition of this enigmatical fact (see the Phædo) is better than divers other ingenious theories.]
[144] [John xxi. 19. A pious habit which long survived among Christians, when learning that death was at hand: as in Shakespeare’s Henry IV., “Laud be to God, ev’n there my life must end.” See 1 Thess. v. 18.]
[145] [See Irenæus, vol. i. p. 377 this Series.]
[146] [Elucidation X.]
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