[27] Cætera, quæ fieri in terris, Coeloque tuentur Mortales pavidis cum pendent mentibus sæpe Efficiunt animos humiles formidine Divum, Depressosque premunt ad terram, propterea quod Ignorantia causarum conferre Deorum Cogit ad imperium res, et concedere regnum: et Quorum operum causas nulla ratione videre Possunt hæc fieri Divino numine rentur. Lucret. de Rer. Nat. Lib. VI. v. 49 et seq. [28] "What appears to our limited conceptions to be evil or apparently unjust, is entirely owing to our having no commensurate ideas either of the goodness or the justice of the Deity."--Bolingbroke's Works, Vol. iv, p. 117.--Translator's Note. [29] Acts, chap. xvii, v. 28. [30] "Qui autem negabit Deum esse corpus, etsi Deus Spiritus?" Tertul adv. Prax. cap. vii. [31] These four Councils were, First, that of Nice, (325) under Constantine and Pope Sylvester: Second, that of Constantinople, 381, under Gratian, Valentinian, Theodosius, and Pope Damasus: Third, that of Ephesus, 431, under Theodosius II, Valentinian, and Pope Celestin: and Fourth, that of Chalcedon, 451, under Valentinian, Marcianus, and Pope Leo I. [32] The Talmud informs us that the Rabbis deliberated whether they ought not to strike from the list of Canonical writings the books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, and that they only spared them because they made favourable mention of Moses and his law. The prophecies of Ezekiel (which the Jews were not permitted to read until they were thirty years of age) would to a certainty have been expunged from the sacred Catalogue, if a learned Rabbi had not undertaken to reconcile them with the same Law. [33] Consult Hobbes' Leviathan "De Homine," chap. xli, pages 56, 57 and 58. [34] Philip of Macedon had sent auxiliaries and money to Hannibal in Africa. "Infensos Philippo, ob auxilia cum pecunia nuper in Africam missu Annibale." Levy, Book xxxi. chap. 1.--Translator's Note. [35] Hobbe's Leviathan, "De Homine," chap. xii, pp. 56 and 57. [36] Hobbes, ubi supra "De Homine," chap. xii. pages 58 and 59. [37] This word must not be taken in its usual acceptation. What rational men understand by the term is a dexterous man, an able cheat, and a master of jugglery, which requires great readiness and address; and not by any means a person in compact with the Devil as the vulgar suppose. [38] "And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; for as much as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes."--Num. chap. x, v. 31. [39] Exodus iv. 16. [40] When Romulus was reviewing his forces in the plain of Caprae, here suddenly arose a thunder-storm, during which he was enveloped in so thick a cloud that he was lost to the view of his army; nor thereafter on this earth was Romulus seen.--Liv. 1. I. c. 16.--Translator's note. [41] Hobbes' Leviathan; de homine, chap. xii. pp. 59 and 60.