Note 039 Tertullian, de Corona, c. 3. Athanasillss tom. i. p. 101 [p. 89, ed. Bened. 1698; de Incarn. Verbi Dei, c. 48]. The learned Jesuit Petavius (Dagmata Theolog. 1. xv. c. 9, 10) has collected many similar passages on the virtues of the cross, which in the last age embarrassed our protestant disputants.

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Note to Chapter 20 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon