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why did not Minerva defend Athens hom Xerxes Or whydid not Apollo rescuo Delphi out of the hand of Pyrrhus
They Who last their own cities preserve the city of Rome, since fors thJ tho religiousness' of Romo has merited thoprotectioni But is it not rather tho faci that this excessive devotion ' has been devised sinco tho empiro has attained ita glory by the increase of iis power No doubi sacred rites mere introduced by Numa, but then your proceedings Werenot marred by a religion os idola and temples. Pleu Wassimple,' and worship humble; altars Rrere artiessty reared,' and the Vesseis Jhereo plain, and the incense from themscant, and the god himself nowhere. Men thereiore mere notreligious bosore they achieved greatness, nor grea becausothey wem religious. But hon can tho Romans possibiy seemto have acquired their empire is an excessive religiousnessand very protound respect for the gods, when stat empiremas rather increased aster tho gias had Mon stighted δ' Nom ii I am not mistahen, every hingdom or empire is acquired and enlarged by Wars, Whilst they and their godsalso are injured by conquerora. For the fame ruin affecisboth cit Walis and temples; similar is tho carnago both oi civilians and of priesis; identical tho ptunder of prosanethings and of sacred. To the Romans belong as many sacrileges as trophies; and then as many triumphs Over gods
Operati plerique. Apollo; comp. The Apolon, c. HV.Jη Voluti tueri. ' Religiositas.' Frugi. ' Temeraria. a Dediticius. See Herodoti t. 50.J Superstitio.
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506 TERTULLIANUS as ovor nations. Stili rem aining are thela captivo idolsamongst them; and certainin is they can only see their conquerors, they do not give them their love. Since, ho-eVer, they have no perception, they are injured Mith impunity; and since they are injured mitti impunitri theyare Worshipped to no purpose. The nation, theresere, Whichlias grown in iis powerfui height by victory alter victor' cannot seem to have developed o ing to the merita of iis religion - whether they have injured the religion is augmenting their po er, or augmented their po er by injuring
the religion. Ait nations have possessed empire, each in iis proper time, as the Assyrians, the Medes, the Perstans, the Egyptians; empire is even noW also in the possession offome, and yet they that have lost their pomer used not tobeliave Without attention to religious services and the worshipof the gods, even after these had become unpropitious in them, untii at last almost universat dominion has accruta totho Roman s. It is tho fortuno of the times that has thus constantly shahen hingdoms with revolution.' Inquire Who has ordained these changes in the timos. It is the samo
suprema of them into the hands of the Romans, very muchas i ' tho tribute of many nations were after ita exactionamassed in ono fuas coster. What He has detormined con- cerning it, they know who are the nearest in Him.'
Et depropitiorum. φ Volutavit.' Compare The Apolon, c. XXVi.J Ce have troated this tanquam V and ita clauso M something morethan a mere simile. It is, in faci, an integrat element of the suprema Which the entire sentenco describea aa conserred on the Romana by tho
' That is, the Christians, ullo ars veli amare ot God'a pur ses aS declared in prophecy. St. Paul telis the Thessalonians What the orderoi the great eventa subsequent to the Romau power Was to be: thedestruction of that power Maa to be followed by the develo ent and
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CONSIDERED UITH RESPECT BOTH TO IN OMN NATURE. AND TO IN RELATIVE PLACE IN SUCCESSITE DISPENSATIONAE
AUTHOR OF TYPOLOGY OF SCRIPTURE,' ETC. Tho thomo is ono of tho grandeat that can Engam tho attontion of tho most exalteo intelligonoes, and fow of our r adera, Wo presume, Wili ho satisned Without mading forthemaelvos thia maaterly and Eloquent contribution to our theological literatum, Whichmill not only auatain, but augm nt tho reputation tho author has acquirin fis an eminentinoologiam' Brittis and Fortio Evangelicia Rerim. It is impossibio in givo any idea, in a baro notico liko the present, of tho masterly manner in Which, With the uno instinet of tho metaphysical divino, and tho profound scholarahip of tho biblicat interpretor, Dr. Falabaim Eatablishes his Suocemivo Positiona, and overthro a thoas of his various antagonista. Eva elicia mineas. In dem1 8vo, prico 10s. 6 L,
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Morything Whioh Iericia research and grammatical analysis can earet to bring ontino most subus And dolicate a des of thought contained in Sti Paulla isting, has Mona omptishod by tho lsamed and patast ing Prolossor. Tho h h tono a tho book,too, is equat to Ita unquestionabis scholarahiΡ - Mamari. This mois .iu do moro than proservo tho Woli mon reputation os m. Eadio. Thersia a considerabis alvanos over his formor expositiona. There is a greator amount of rem coa at his disposal, and moro laesdom in his triniment of them '-- ἐν μου is.
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Professor of Theology, Universis of Grecti
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Biblicat Commentav on the Pentateuch.
Bullaal Commentav on the Books of Samuel.
Biblicat Commentav on tbe Book of Job.
Biblicat Commentav on me Prophecies of Laiab.
Biblicat Commentary on the Minor Propheis.
Biblicat Commentary on tbe Epistis to the Hebrems.
Biblicai Commentav on the Book of Psalms.
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THE GOS PELS OF ST MATTHEM AND MAR
Theological and EmiletiduoOMMENTARY ON THE AOTS OF THE APOSTLES.