Arnobius

“ Hercules, because he overpowered and restrained wild beasts and robbers, and water-serpents of many heads,—with how great distinctions is He to be honoured by us, who, by instilling His truth into our hearts, has freed us from great errors; who, when we were straying everywhere, as if blind and without a guide, withdrew us from precipitous and devious paths, and set our feet on more smooth places; who has pointed out what is especially profitable and salutary for the human race ”

“ Footnotes ↑ So all edd., except those of Hildebrand and Oehler, for the ms. censum—“list.”↑ That is, that God is a Spirit. [Note our author’s spirit of faith in Christ.] ↑ Orelli would refer these words to God; he thinks that with those immediately following they may be understood of God’s spiritual nature,—an idea which he therefore supposes Arnobius to assert had never been grasped by the heathen.↑ So Gelenius, followed by Orelli and others, for the corrupt reading of the ms., idem ne quis ”