Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Methodius/General Note

by Methodius

General Note.

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(Vexillas,—as they are called, p. 399.)

It is very curious to note how certain ideas are inherited from the earliest Fathers, and travel down, as here, to find a new expression in a distant age. Here our author reflects Justin Martyr,^[1] and the Labarum^[2] itself is the outcrop of what Justin wrote to Antoninus Pius.

Footnotes

1. See vol. i. p. 181, this series.
2. See p. 285, supra, under the Emperors.