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| i. | [6.] | This description of the slaves in the ergastulum is from Apuleius. |
| i. | [7]. | “The cross has been the tomb,” etc., a quotation from Plautus. |
| ii. | [2]. | Epictetus was probably a child at this time. |
| ii. | [2]. | The remarks of Nicostratus and Heracleas are taken from Maximus of Tyre. |
| ii. | [2]. | The remark of Heracleas on the ancient transformations is taken from Pausanias. |
| ii. | [3]. | The whole of this description of a festival is from Maximus of Tyre. |
| ii. | [4]. | For the story of the fighting-cock and the rest, see Friedländer’s work on the Religion of the Ancients (French translation), vol. iv., 180. |
| ii. | [4]. | Oneirocritus, describing his sickness and the favors of Asclepius, here repeats the sentiments of P. Ælius Aristides, about 117 A. D. (see Friedlander, ib., 181-4). |
| ii. | [4]. | Pliny esteemed it right to build temples, etc., of gods in whom he disbelieved. |
| ii. | [6]. | The account of the descent into the cave of Trophonius is borrowed from Pausanias, who himself went down. |
| ii. | [6]. | “I could not restrain myself from laughing:” this detail is borrowed from Pausanias. |
| ii. | [7]. | The whole travesty of Socrates is taken from Lucian’s Halcyon. |
| ii. | [7]. | “Sobriety and incredulity,” etc: see note on iii. 3. |
| iii. | [3]. | Philip is reported to have raised a dead man (Euseb. H. E., iii. 39): but the account given in the text is borrowed from the account of the revivification of the Archbishop of Bordeaux, written out for the Author by one who heard it from the Archbishop himself. |
| iii. | [3]. | “Sober incredulity,” etc: a translation of the proverb, Νᾶφε καὶ μὲνασ’ ἀπιστεῖν νεῦρα ταῦτα τῶν φρενῶν. |
| iii. | [7]. | “With whom I do not agree; neither would I,” etc.: this statement about the diversity of opinions concerning the nature of Christ, is a quotation from Justin, Dial., 48. |
| iii. | [8]. | The “Tradition” here mentioned by Onesimus in the beginning of this section, is the matter common to the first three Gospels. It may be roughly represented by the Gospel of St. Mark, excluding the verses after Mark xvi. 8, which are recognized by all scholars to be an interpolation. For fuller information on the nature of this “Tradition” the reader may consult the article on Gospels in the new edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. |
| iv. | [1]. | The description of the voyage is from Lucian. iv. 2. Almost the whole of this letter is borrowed from Celsus as represented in Origen’s treatise against him. |
| iv. | [6-9]. | The sayings here put into the mouth of Epictetus are, almost without exception, extracted from his works. |
| iv. | [10]. | The parable of the ant-hill is from Lucian. iv. 10. “If you are resolved to deal in such wares,” etc. This passage is borrowed from Lucian’s Auction of the Gods. |
| iv. | [10]. | “Though my body dwelleth,” etc., “Enjoy the present,” etc.; these two inscriptions are still extant on the same tomb of husband and wife. See a paper by Mr. Newton in the Nineteenth Century, August, 1878. |
| iv. | [10]. | “Sleep soundly stretched at ease:” this is the advice of Teiresias in Lucian, 484-5. v. 1. This description of the dancing of the women of the priest of Cybele is from Apuleius. |
| v. | [4]. | “Heraclitus, the crying philosopher:” this is borrowed from Lucian. |
| vi. | [2]. | “Whether the true God had nails, and hair, and teeth, and the like.” Such are the difficulties suggested by the Manicheans to Augustine, Confessions, iii. 7. |
| viii. | [3]. | The description of the High-priest is from Ecclesiasticus, 50. |
| viii. | [3]. | The description of the miseries of Jerusalem is from 2 Esdras, iii. 28. |
| viii. | [3]. | “The hand which now had power:” this quotation is from 2 Esdras, v. 3. “The spoils should be carried back to the cities of the East:” this is from the Fourth Sibylline Book. |
| viii. | [10]. | The whole of this narrative is borrowed from the account of the Martyrdom of St. Perpetua. |
THE DISCOURSE OF LUCIUS OF CYRENE.
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| [296]. | For the importance attached to prophecy, see Irenæus (AgainstHeresies, ii. 4): “If, however, they maintain that the Lordperformed such works simply in appearance, we shall referthem to the prophetical writings, and prove from these boththat all things were thus predicted regarding Him, and didtake place undoubtedly.” Justin Martyr also takes thesame view, I. Apol., 30. |
| [296]. | “Who shall declare his generation?” This passage is similarlyapplied by Justin Martyr, Dialogue, 63. |
| [298]. | “He shall take away,” etc. So Justin (Dial., 77), “But now theprophecy has stated it with this addition: ‘Before thechild knows how to call father or mother, he shall take thepower of Damascus and spoils of Samaria.’ And youcannot prove that such a thing ever happened to anyone among the Jews. But we are able to prove that ithappened in the case of Christ.” And he then proceeds tointerpret Damascus as referring to the Magi, and Assyriato Herod, as in the text. |
| [299]. | “Behold a Man, the East is his name,” Zech. vi. 12, accordingto the Septuagint quoted by Justin, Dial., 106. |
| [300]. | “He shall dwell in a cave,” etc.: quoted by Justin Martyr fromthe Septuagint version of Isaiah xxxiii. 16 (Dial., 70). |
| [302]. | “The Lord God remembered his dead people of Israel,” etc.This passage is quoted by Justin Martyr (Dial., 72), whoaccuses the Jews of cancelling this and other passages ofthe Scriptures. It is also quoted by Irenæus (AgainstHeresies, iii. 20) as from Isaiah, and (ib. iv. 22) as fromJeremiah. But it is not found in our Scriptures. |
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