[308:1] The treatise “De Mortibus Persecutorum” is generally attributed to Lactantius who flourished in the early part of the fourth century.  The authorship is doubtful.

[308:2] Ps. ix. 16.

[308:3] Herodian, iii. 23.  This circumstance, as well as some others here stated, is not mentioned in the work “De Mort.  Persec.”  Tertullian mentions some other remarkable facts, “Ad Scapulam,” c. 3.

[308:4] “De Mortib.  Persec.,” c. 49.

[309:1] Tertullian, “Apol.” c. 46.

[310:1] Tertullian, “Apol.” 28.

[310:2] Tertullian, “Ad Scapulam,” Sec. 2.

[311:1] John xviii. 36.

[312:1] Phil. iii. 18, 19.

[313:1] Cyprian, “De Lapsis,” p. 374.

[313:2] Cyprian, “Ad Cornelium,” epist. xlix. p. 143.  Cyprian also charges one of his deacons with fraud, extortion, and adultery.  Epist. xxxviii. p. 116.

[313:3] Cornelius of Rome in Euseb. vi. 43.

[315:1] See Eusebius, v. 3, vi. 9.

[315:2] See Neander’s “Antignostikus,” part ii. sect. ii. at the end.  It appears that the Christian ascetics adopted the dress of the pagan philosophers.

[315:3] Cyprian, “De Habitu Virginum,” pp. 354, 361.

[315:4] Still, in the time of Origen, the sons of bishops, presbyters, and deacons valued themselves upon their parentage.—­Origen in “Matthaeum” xv. opera, tom. in. p. 690.  Even Cyprian bears honourable testimony to certain married presbyters.  See “Epist.” xxxv. p. 111.  See also “Epist.” xviii. p. 67.  Cyprian himself was indebted for his conversion to an eminent presbyter, named Caecilius, who had a wife and children.  “Life of Cyprian,” by Pontius the Deacon, Sec. 5.

[315:1] Cyprian, “Epist.” lxii. p. 219.  Concerning the Subintroductae, see also the letter relating to Paul of Samosata in Euseb. vii. 30.

[316:1] Jerome and Athanasius.

[316:2] See Medhurst’s “China,” p. 217.  The symbol of the cross was engraved on the walls of the temple of Serapis.  “When the temple of Serapis was torn down and laid bare,” says Socrates, “there were found in it, engraven on stones, certain characters, which they call hieroglyphics, having the forms of crosses. Both the Christians and Pagans on seeing them, thought they had reference to their respective religions.”  “Ecc.  Hist.” v. 17.

[316:3] Prescott, “Conquest of Mexico,” in. 338-340.  See also note, p. 340.  Sir Robert Ker Porter mentions a block of stone found among the ruins of Susa, having, on one side, inscriptions in the cuneiform diameter; and, on another, hieroglyphical figures with a cross in the corner.  See his “Travels,” vol. ii. p. 415.  Among the ancient pagans, the cross was the symbol of eternal life, or divinity.  On medals and monuments of a date far anterior to Christianity, it is found in the hands of statues of victory and of figures of monarchs.  See also Tertullian, “Apol.” c. 16.