General Note.
General Note.
(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, and the Labarum itself is the outcrop of what Justin wrote to Antoninus Pius.
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