Two Fragments, Uncertain · General Note
Summary
Page 403 of 423
(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,3190 and the Labarum3191 itself is the outcrop of what Justin wrote to Antoninus Pius.
Notes
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.