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[359] [To the infernal deities and first of all to Pluto. See vol. I. note 6, p. 131, this Series.]
[360] [Bunsen, Hippol. Vol. III. pp. 20–22.]
[363] Ps. xlix. 18. [This chapter bears on modern theatres.]
[364] [The ludi Atellani were so called from Atella, in Campania, where a vast amphitheatre delighted the inhabitants. Juvenal, Sat. vi. 71. The like disgrace our times.]
[365] [See Kaye, p. 11. This expression is thought to confirm the probability of Tertullian’s original Gentilism.]
[368] [De Cælo in Cænum: (sic) Oehler.]
[369] [The exorcism. For the exorcism in Baptism, see Bunsen, Hippol. iii. 19.]
[370] See Neander’s explanation in Kaye, p. xxiii. But, let us observe the entire simplicity with which our author narrates a sort of incident known to the apostles. Acts xvi. 16.]
[373] [Observe—“daily raised.” On this precarious condition of the Christians, in their daily life, see the calm statement of Kaye, pp. 110, 111.
[376] [See cap. 26, supra. On this claim to such powers still remaining in the church. See Kaye, p. 89.]
[377] [Kaye, p. 20. He doubtless looked for a speedy appearance of the Lord: and note the apparent expectation of a New Jerusalem, on earth, before the Consummation and Judgment.]
[378] [This New Jerusalem gives Bp. Kaye (p. 55) “decisive proof” of Montanism, especially as compared with the Third Book against Marcion. I cannot see it, here.]
[379] Viz., the theatre and amphitheatre. [This concluding chapter, which Gibbon delights to censure, because its fervid rhetoric so fearfully depicts the punishments of Christ’s enemies, “appears to Dr. Neander to contain a beautiful specimen of lively faith and Christian confidence.” See Kaye, p. xxix.]
IV. The Chaplet, or De Corona.
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