Apologetic

Footnotes

^[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.]

Chapter XLVI.

^[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.]

Chapter XLVII.

^[145] [See Irenæus, vol. i. p. 377 this Series.]

^[146] [Elucidation X.]

^[147] True, in the sense that a shadow cannot be projected by a body not yet existent.

Chapter XLVIII.

^[148] [i.e., Caius, used (like John Doe with us) in Roman Law.]

^[149] Know thyself. [Juvenal, xi. 27, on which see great wealth of reference in J.E.B. Mayor’s Juvenal (xiii. Satires), and note especially, Bernard, Serm. De Divers xl. 3. In Cant. Cantic. xxxvi. 5–7.]

^[150] [Our author’s philosophy may be at fault, but his testimony is not to be mistaken.]

Chapter L.

^[151] [Vicimus cum occidimur.]

^[152] [Elucidation XI.]

^[153] [Elucidation XII.]

^[154] Kaye, p. 36. Also, p. 8, supra.

III.

^[155] Kaye (following L’Art de verifier les Dates) pp. 11 and 456.

IV.

^[156] My references are to the Third Edition, London, Rivingtons, 1845.

^[157] In his edition of The Decline and Fall, Vol. I., p. 589, American reprint.

VI.