<< | Contents | >> |
Ethical
Show All Footnotes & Jump to 8420
[8420] [We pass from the polemical class of our author’s writings to those of a practical and ethical character. This treatise on Penitence is the product of our author’s best days, and may be dated a.d. 192.]
Chapter I.—Of Heathen Repentance.
[8421] “Offensa sententiæ pejoris;” or possibly, “the miscarriage of some,” etc.
[8422] Thesaurus.
[8423] Sæculo. [Erasmus doubted the genuineness of this treatise, partly because of the comparative purity of its style. See Kaye, p. 42.]
Chapter II.—True Repentance a Thing Divine, Originated by God, and Subject to His Laws.
[8424] Sæculi dote. With which he had been endowed. Comp. Gen. i. 28; Ps. viii. 4-8.
[8425] i.e., man.
[8426] Orbi.
[8427] Componeret.
[8428] Comp. Matt. iii. 1-2; Mark i. 4; Luke iii. 4-6.
[8429] i.e., man’s salvation.
[8430] See the latter part of c. i.
Search Comments 
This page has been visited 0130 times.
<< | Contents | >> |
10 per page