¹ Possibly as late as a.d. 230. Comp. Wordsworth, Hippol., p. 126.

² A condensed and valuable view of this matter may be seen in Dr. Schaff's History, etc., vol. iii. pp. 834-841.

³ See Bishop Jewell, Works, vol. i. pp. 386, 441. Cambridge, 1845.

⁴ Vol. I. of this series, pp. 23, 24. See also Bunsen, Hippol., i. p. 244.

⁵ De Viris Illustribus, c. 58.

⁶ [His connection with the Roman courts is inferred from cap. ii. infra.]

⁷ Milman's Hist. of Christianity, vol. iii. book iv. ch. iii.

⁸ [Dr. Wallis, the learned translator of the Octavius, is described in the Edinburgh edition as "Senior Priest-Vicar of Wells Cathedral, and incumbent of Christ Church, Coxley, Somerset."]

¹ [Sallust, Catiline, "Idem facere atque sentire," etc. Also, Catiline's speech, p. 6 of The Conspiracy.]

² [Beautiful tribute to Christian friendship, in a primitive example. We must bear in mind that the story is of an earlier period than that of the work itself, written at Cirta.]

³ "Ita ut me ex tribus medium lateris ambitione protegerent."

⁴ The ms. and first edition read "more;" Ursinus suggested minus instead of magis.

⁵ This clause is otherwise read: "Therefore we must be indignant, nay, must be grieved."

⁶ Otherwise for "even," "except."

⁷ The reading of the ms. is "stuprari," as above. "Scrutari," "sciari," or "lustrare" and "suspicari," are proposed emendations.

⁸ Or, "although its weight may have established the earth."

⁹ Or, "although the moisture may have flowed into the sea."

¹⁰ Variously read, "is raised up," or "and is raised up." The ms. has "attollitur," which by some is amended into "et alitur," or "et tollitur."

¹¹ Either "delectu" or "dilectu."

¹² Or, "it is extolled."

¹³ "To think of rather than to know" in some texts.

¹⁴ Neander quotes this passage as illustrating the dissatisfied state of the pagan mind with the prevailing infidelity at that time.

¹⁵ Or, "the great mother" [i.e., Cybele. S.].

¹⁶ Or, "which another people, when angry, would have despised."

¹⁷ Otherwise, "the goddess mother."

¹⁸ Scil. Castor and Pollux.

¹⁹ Otherwise, "who breathless with horses foaming," etc.

²⁰ Otherwise, "the offence of Jupiter, the renewal of the games," etc.

²¹ According to the codex, "the Milesian." [See note in Reeve's Apologies of Justin Martyr, Tertullian, and Minucius Felix, vol. ii. p. 59. S.]

²² Some have corrected this word, reading "without consideration," scil. "inconsulte;" and the four first editions omit the subsequent words, "concerning the divinity."

²³ There are various emendations of this passage, but their meaning is somewhat obscure. One is elaborately ingenious: "Ita illis pavorum fallax spes solatio redivivo blanditur," which is said to imply, "Thus the hope that deceives their fears, soothes them with the hope of living again."

²⁴ Otherwise read "abominable."

²⁵ This charge, as Oehler thinks, refers apparently to the kneeling posture in which penitents made confession before their bishop.

²⁶ This calumny seems to have originated from the sacrament of the Eucharist.

²⁷ Scil. Fronto of Cirta, spoken of again in ch. xxxi. [A recent very interesting discovery goes to show that our author was the chief magistrate of Cirta, in Algeria, from a.d. 210 to 217. See Schaff, vol. iii. p. 841.]

²⁸ Otherwise, "no consecrated images."

²⁹ Otherwise, "we are contained and bound together."

³⁰ [These very accusations, reduced back to Christian language, show that much of the Creed was, in fact, known to the heathen at this period.]

³¹ [1 Tim. iv. 7.]

³² "And I have already shown, without any trouble," is another reading.

³³ Otherwise, "without a body or with."

³⁴ Otherwise, "too credulous."

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