TANTUM.
[1] (?)Those holding sinecures. [↑]
[2] A sect of East Indian philosophers who went about almost naked, ate no flesh, renounced all bodily pleasures, and simply contemplated nature.
The “Pre-Adamite doctrine,” similar to the above, was published by Isaac de Peyrere about 1655. These fanatics believed that mankind lost none of their innocence by the fall of Adam. Both men and women made their appearance in the streets of Munster, France, in puris naturalibus, as did our first parents in the Garden of Eden, before the fruit incident, which brought so much trouble into the world. The magistrates failed to put them down, and the military had some difficulty in abolishing this absurdity.—A. N. [↑]
[3] An Intercessor, applied to the Holy Spirit. [↑]
[4] Average seems to indicate the VI. Commandment.—A. N. [↑]
[5] [Exodus xxxii, 31, 32]. And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.