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| That he reigned above Thirty Years, and lived above Sixty.
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Chapter V.—That he reigned above
Thirty Years, and lived above Sixty.
With respect to the duration of his reign, God honored him with three
complete periods of ten years, and something more, extending the whole
term of his mortal life to twice this number of years.3062
| 3062 Compare discussion of length of reign and life under Life
in Prolegomena, p. 411. | And being pleased to make him a
representative of his own sovereign power, he displayed him as the
conqueror of the whole race of tyrants, and the destroyer of those
God-defying giants3063
| 3063 ̓́Γιγ€ντων. The persecuting emperors appear to be meant, of whom there
is more mention hereafter.—Bag.] Refers of course to the
mythical Gigantes who fought against the gods. It is used in the same
sense in which Æschylus uses it of Capaneus (Theb. 424), who
defied Zeus in declaring that even his thunderbolts should not keep him
out of Thebes. | of the earth
who madly raised their impious arms against him, the supreme King of all.
They appeared, so to speak, for an instant, and then disappeared: while
the one and only true God, when he had enabled his servant, clad in
heavenly panoply, to stand singly against many foes, and by his means
had relieved mankind from the multitude of the ungodly, constituted him
a teacher of his worship to all nations, to testify with a loud voice
in the hearing of all that he acknowledged the true God, and turned
with abhorrence from the error of them that are no gods.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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