The Sacred Writings of Lactantius
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The Sacred Writings of Lactantius

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The Sacred Writings of Lactantius

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"The Sacred Writings Of..." provides you with the essential works among the Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until medieval times. Contents: The Divine Institutes Book I. Of the False Worship of the Gods.Book II. Of the Origin of Error.Book III. Of the False Wisdom of Philosophers.Book IV. Of True Wisdom and Religion.Book V. Of Justice.Book VI. Of True Worship.Book VII. Of a Happy Life.The Epitome of the Divine InstitutesA Treatise on the Anger of GodOn the Workmanship of God, or the Formation of ManOf the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died.Fragments of LactantiusThe PhoenixA Poem on the Passion of the LordGeneral Note.Footnotes:

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Publisher
Jazzybee Verlag
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9783849621407
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Theology

Footnotes:

1 [This, St. Augustine powerfully illustrates, See Confessions, lib. iii. cap 3. Note also Ib., lib. ix. cap 5.]
2 [It thrills me to compare this modest tribute of Christian confidence, with Justin's unheeded appeal to the Stoical Antonine.]
3 [Pilate is answered at last out of the Roman court itself .]
4 [
"How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose."
-Milton, Comus.]
5 [Ingeniously introduced, and afterward very forcibly expanded.]
6 [A hint to Caesar himself, the force of which began soon after very sorely to be felt in the empire.]
7 Cunei; properly, soldiers arranged in the shape of a wedge.
8 [Not David merely, nor only other kings of the Hebrews. Elucidation I.]
9 prwto/gonon.
10 fa/nhta, the appearer.
11 Aen., vi. 724.
12 Georg., iv. 221. [These passages seem borrowed from the Octavius of Minucius, cap. 19, vol. iv. p. 183.]
13 [Fabricatorem mundi, rerum opificem.]
14 [Concerning the 0rphica, see vol. i. p. 178, note 1, and pp. 279, 290. For Sibyllina, Ibid., p. 169, note 9, and pp. 280-289. Note also vol. ii. p. 194, note 2, and T. Lewis, Plato cont. Ath., p. 99.]
15 Virg., Georg., ii. 325-327.
16 [See (Sigonius) p. 144, ed. Paris, 1818.]
17 [See vol. i. p. 289 note 2, this series.]
18 The Quindecemviri were the fifteen...

Table of contents

  1. Contents:
  2. Lactantius – A Biography
  3. The Sacred Writings of Lactantius
  4. The Divine Institutes
  5. Book I. Of the False Worship of the Gods.
  6. Book II. Of the Origin of Error.
  7. Book III. Of the False Wisdom of Philosophers.
  8. Book IV. Of True Wisdom and Religion.
  9. Book V. Of Justice.
  10. Book VI. Of True Worship.
  11. Book VII. Of a Happy Life.
  12. The Epitome of the Divine Institutes
  13. Elucidations
  14. A Treatise on the Anger of God
  15. On the Workmanship of God, or the Formation of Man
  16. Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died.
  17. Fragments of Lactantius
  18. Footnotes: