Arnobius

“ But let this monstrous and impious fancy be put [1] far from us, that Almighty God, the creator and framer, the author [2] of things great and invisible, should be believed to have begotten souls so fickle, with no seriousness, firmness, and steadiness, prone to vice, inclining to all kinds of sins; and while He knew that they were such and of this character, to have bid [3] them enter into bodies, imprisoned in which, [4] they should live exposed to the storms and tempests of fortune every day, and now do mean things, now submit to lewd treatment ”

“ Footnotes ↑ Lit., “go.”↑ By Hildebrand and Oehler, procreator is with reason regarded as a gloss.↑ The ms., both Roman edd., and Hildebrand read jussisset; but this would throw the sentence into confusion, and the other edd. therefore drop t.↑ LB., Hildebrand, and Oehler read quorum indu-c-tæ carceribus—“led into the prisons of which,” all other edd. omitting c as above. According to Oehler, the ms. ”