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[297] Or, “consistency.”
[298] i.e., Official character.
[299] Or, “free” or “good” “birth.”
[300] Or, “during.”
[301] i.e., the dress was the sign that they had obtained it.
[302] I have departed from Oehler’s reading here, as I have not succeeded in finding that the “stola” was a boy’s garment; and, for grammatical reasons, the reading of Gelenius and Pamelius (which I have taken) seems best.
[303] See 1 Cor. ix. 19.
[304] St. Paul in his epistle glories in the title, “Paul, a slave,” or “bondman,” “of Christ Jesus.”
[305] Luke ix. 58; Matt. viii. 20.
[306] Matt. xi. 8; Luke vii. 25.
[308] See John xiii. 1-17.
[309] See John xviii. 36.
[311] In baptism.
[312] i.e., From your birth and means, you will be expected to fill offices which are in some way connected with idolatry.
[313] i.e., Martyrdom (La Cerda, quoted by Oehler). For the idea of being “a magistrate in the heavens,” [sitting on a throne] compare such passages as Matt. xix. 28; Luke xxii. 28, 30; 1 Cor. vi. 2-3; Rev. ii. 26-27; iii. 21.
Chapter XIX.—Concerning Military Service.
[314] Elucidation II.
[315] “Sacramentum” in Latin is, among other meanings, “a military oath.”
[316] “Virgam.” The vine switch, or rod, in the Roman army was a mark of the centurion’s (i.e., captain’s) rank.
[317] To fasten the ephod; hence the buckle worn by soldiers here referred to would probably be the belt buckle. Buckles were sometimes given as military rewards (White and Riddle).
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