Footnotes

¹⁴⁵⁶Notitiam.

¹⁴⁵⁷Luke xviii. 38.

¹⁴⁵⁸Non temere.

¹⁴⁵⁹Luke xviii. 39.

¹⁴⁶⁰Luke xviii. 40.

¹⁴⁶¹Atquin.

¹⁴⁶²Infameretis.

¹⁴⁶³Luke xviii. 42.

¹⁴⁶⁴Remunerator.

¹⁴⁶⁵That is, in the sound only, and phantom of the word; an allusion to the Docetic absurdity of Marcion.

¹⁴⁶⁶That is, that He was "Son of David," etc.

¹⁴⁶⁷Censum: that is, must believe Him born of her.

¹⁴⁶⁸This, perhaps, is the meaning in a clause which is itself more antithetical than clear: "Ruens in antithesim, ruentem et ipsam antithesim."

¹⁴⁶⁹In book iii. chap. vii. (At the beginning), occurs the same proverb of Marcion and the Jews. See p. 327.

¹⁴⁷⁰See 2 Sam. v. 6-8.

¹⁴⁷¹The Marcionites.

¹⁴⁷²See 2 Sam. v. 8.

¹⁴⁷³Fidei equidem pravae: see preceding page, note 3.

¹⁴⁷⁴Atquin.

¹⁴⁷⁵Et hoc filius David: i.e., praestitit, "showed Himself good," perhaps.

¹⁴⁷⁶De suo retundendam. Instead of contrast, he shows the similarity of the cases.

¹⁴⁷⁷Ejusdem carnis: i.e., infirmae (Oehler).

¹⁴⁷⁸Exorandum sibi.

¹⁴⁷⁹Luke xix. 9.

¹⁴⁸⁰The older reading, which we here follow, is: "Enimvery Zacchaeus etsi allophylus fortasse," etc. Oehler, however, points the passage thus: "Enimvero Zacchaeus etsi allophylus, fortasse," etc., removing the doubt, and making Zacchaeus "of another race" than the Jewish, for certain. This is probably more than Tertullian meant to say.

¹⁴⁸¹Aliqua notitia afflatus.

¹⁴⁸²Isa. lviii. 7.

¹⁴⁸³In the same passage.

¹⁴⁸⁴For the history of Zacchaeus, see Luke xix. 1-10.

¹⁴⁸⁵Isa. lviii. 6.

¹⁴⁸⁶Luke xix. 8.

¹⁴⁸⁷Luke xix. 9.

¹⁴⁸⁸Salutaria esse.

¹⁴⁸⁹Luke xix. 10.

¹⁴⁹⁰Substantiis.

¹⁴⁹¹Caro: "the flesh," here a synonym with the corpus of the previous clauses.

¹⁴⁹²Elisa est.

¹⁴⁹³Secundum rationem feneratae.

¹⁴⁹⁴Ex pate severitatis.

¹⁴⁹⁵This phrase comes not from the present passage, but from Luke viii. 18, where the words are o# dokei= e!xein; here the expression is o# e!xei only.

¹⁴⁹⁶Luke xix. 22.

¹⁴⁹⁷The original of this obscure sentence is as follows: "Aut si et hic Creatorem finxerit austerum... . . hic quoque me ille instruit eujus pecuniam ut fenerem edocet.

¹⁴⁹⁸Luke xx. 4.

¹⁴⁹⁹Luke xx. 6.

¹⁵⁰⁰Existeret.

¹⁵⁰¹Ipse.

¹⁵⁰²"Of knowledge of good and evil." The "law" thereof occurs in Gen. iii. 3.

¹⁵⁰³Luke xx. 5.

¹⁵⁰⁴Increpaturus.

¹⁵⁰⁵Certe. [The word sacrament not technical here.]

¹⁵⁰⁶Luke xx. 8.

¹⁵⁰⁷Luke xx. 25.

¹⁵⁰⁸Materia.

¹⁵⁰⁹Monetam.

¹⁵¹⁰Non alieno.

¹⁵¹¹Quo magis absit a Christo.

¹⁵¹²Luke xx. 27-33.

¹⁵¹³Ut videatur.

¹⁵¹⁴Subostendisse.

¹⁵¹⁵Luke xx. 34.

¹⁵¹⁶Luke xx. 35, 36.

¹⁵¹⁷Surely Oehler's responsio ought to be responsionis, as the older books have it.

¹⁵¹⁸Absolvitur.

¹⁵¹⁹Ex abundanti.

¹⁵²⁰We have translated here, post praescriptionem, according to the more frequent sense of the word, praescriptio. But there is another meaning of the word, which is not unknown to our author, equivalent to our objection or demurrer, or (to quote Oehler's definition) "clausula qua reus adversarii intentionem oppugnat- the form by which the defendant rebuts the plaintiff's charge." According to this sense, we read: "I shall now proceed . . . and after putting in a demurrer (or taking exception) against the tactics of my opponent."

¹⁵²¹Cohaerentes.

¹⁵²²Decucurrerunt in legendo: or, "they ran through it, by thus reading."

¹⁵²³We have adapted, rather than translated, Tertullian's words in this parenthesis. His words of course suit the order of the Latin, which differs from the English. The sentence in Latin is, "Quos autem dignatus est Deus illius aevi possessione et resurrectione a mortuis." The phrase in question is illius aevi. Where shall it stand? The Marcionites placed it after "Deus" in government, but Tertullian (following the undoubted meaning of the sentence) says it depends on "possessione et resurrectione," i.e., "worthy of the possession, etc., of that world." To effect this construction, he says, "Ut facta hic distinctione post deum ad sequentia pertineat illius aevi:" i.e., he requests that a stop be placed after the word "deus," whereby the phrase "illius aevi" will belong to the words which follow-"possessione et resurrectione a mortuis."

¹⁵²⁴Luke xx. 33.

¹⁵²⁵Luke xx. 39.

¹⁵²⁶Formam: "its conditions" or "process."

¹⁵²⁷Luke xx. 41-44.

¹⁵²⁸Non obtundebat.

¹⁵²⁹Luke xviii. 38.

¹⁵³⁰Luke xx. 41.

¹⁵³¹Tueretur.

¹⁵³²See above: book iii. chap. xv. and xvi. pp. 333, 334.

¹⁵³³The illam here refers to the nominum proprietas, i.e., His title Christ and His name Jesus.

¹⁵³⁴Transnominaret.

¹⁵³⁵Proinde.