{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/004/footnote/fn43.htm","path":"chr/ecf/004/footnote/fn43.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/004/footnote/fn43.htm","text":"147 Which is taken, from its form, as a sign of the cross; see below.\n148 Refers to the \"when\" in 99, above.\n149 Lychno. The \"faces\" are probably the wicks.\n150 \"Scilicet hoc testamen erat virtutis image.\"\n151 The text as it stands is, in Oehler: -\n... \"Hic Baal Christi victoria signo\nExtemplo refugam devicit femina ligno;\"which I would read: -\n... \"Hunc Jael, Christi victorioe signo,\nExtemplo,\" etc.\n152 For \"hic\" I would incline to read \"huic.\"\n155 i.e., to his unshorn Nazarite locks.\n157 See 1 Sam. xxviii. (in LXX. 1 Kings) 11-19.\n159 \"Ex utero:\" a curious expression for a man; but so it is.\n160 i.e., emulous of David's virtues.\n161 Comp. especially 2 Chron. xxix. xxx. xxxi.\n162 Our author is quite correct in his order. A comparison of dates as given in the Scripture history shows us that his reforms preceded his war with Sennacherib.\n163 The \"tactus\" of the Latin is without sense, unless indeed it refer to his being twice \"touched\" by an angel. See 1 Kings (in LXX. 3 Kings) xix. 1-8. I have therefore substituted \"raptus,\" there being no mention of the angel in the Latin.","title":"Fn43","type":"page"}