Page 546. note 6. Fabricius, in quoting this very curious work, cannot refrain from remarking, "Quis vero non miretur, vel indignetur, hos quoque qui Christianos se et solos ecclesiam esse gloriantur, tam apertè utroque hoc in genere invisa Deo, et improbata antiquis Christianis Ethnicismi vestigia legere, ut Antonius Macedo Lusitamus non dubitaverit, a. 1687. fol. Ulyssipone vulgari ingens volumen, quod inscripsit De Diis Tutelaribus Orbis Christiani.""It is to be hoped, that Antonius Macedo was rather an exaggerating hagiographist, than an authoritative divine. For the materials of the above remarks the Translator is chiefly indebted to 'Selden's Titles of Honour,' 'Heylyn on St. George,' 'Pegge on St. George,' in the Archæologia, 'Gesta Dei per Francos,' Fabricius Bibl. Ant.' edit. 3rd, 1760, Epiphanius 'adv. Hæres.' &c. &c. and to the authorities referred to by some of the above. Page 506. In the passage quoted from William of Tyre, the words "Dominicæ dispensationis memoriam" are rendered "memorials of the stewardship of the Lord;" but the translator, by a remark in Burton's Testimonies of the Anti-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of Christ,' p. 70. 2nd ed. is led to imagine that the word "dispensatio" coincides with the Greek oikovoμla, and may therefore mean the Incarnation, or, in a lower sense, the ministry of the Lord. THE END. |