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Introductory Note.

[892] Ultro siletur.

[893] Ejusmodi.

[894] Insuper.

[895] Denique.

[896] Ingenuitatis.

[897] Initiatricem.

[898] Sane.

[899] Fides.

[900] Polluuntur.

[901] Relationibus.

[902] Comp. The Apology, ix. [See, p. 25, Supra.]

[903] Comp. Minucius Felix, Octav. xxi.; Arnobius, adv. Nat. v. 6, 7; Augustine, Civ. Dei, vi. 7.

[904] This is the force of the subjunctive verb.

[905] By divine scandals, he means such as exceed in their atrocity even human scandals.

Chapter VIII.—The Gods of the Different Nations. Varro’s Gentile Class. Their Inferiority. A Good Deal of This Perverse Theology Taken from Scripture. Serapis a Perversion of Joseph.

[906] See above, c. i. [p. 129.]

[907] Municipes. “Their local worshippers or subjects.”

[908] Perceperint.

[909] Literally, “Have men heard of any Nortia belonging to the Vulsinensians?”

[910] Deos decuriones, in allusion to the small provincial senates which in the later times spread over the Roman colonies and municipia.

[911] Privatas.

[912] Compare Suidas, s. v. Σαράπις; Rufinus, Hist. Eccl. ii. 23. As Serapis was Joseph in disguise, so was Joseph a type of Christ, according to the ancient Christians, who were fond of subordinating heathen myths to Christian theology.

 

 

 

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