[344]. Lit. “the Divinity.”
[345]. Cf. Rom. xiii. 1.
[346]. Or “detected in.”
[347]. Usual meaning “a hoe”; Lightfoot tr. “spade.”
[349]. i. e. the sun-god, to whom they pray (see above and cf. Lightfoot, Col., p. 85 note 2).
[350]. As Lightfoot (Col. 363, note) points out, the passage must be read in connexion with the account of the admission to the order (above). A comparison shows that the two year period there mentioned comprises “the period spent in the second and third grades, each extending over a year. After passing through these three stages in three successive years, he enters upon the fourth and highest grade, thus becoming a perfect member.”
[351]. Or, perhaps, “the simplicity of their mode of life and their regular habits.”
[352]. φυσικός here apparently used of the occult laws of nature (v. Liddell-Scott Lex.).
[353]. Lit. “the Sisyphuses,” etc.