215 Dan. vii. 13.

216 1 Tim. ii. 5.

217 Acts ii. 22.

218 Vice praescriptionis.

219 Animalis.

220 Factiuncula.

221 Informatam.

222 Volutabant: see Lactantius, iv. 22.

223 De nobis probatum est: or, perhaps, "has been proved to have happened in our own case."

224 Ps. viii. 6, Sept.

225 Ps. xxii. 6.

226 Isa. liii. 3, Sept.

227 Ex incorruptela.

228 Corruptela.

229 Although Tertullian dignifies him with an ille, we have no particulars of this man. [It may be that this is an epithet, rather than a name, given to some enemy of truth like Zlexander the "Coppersmith" (2 Tim. iv. 14) or like that (1 Tim. i. 20), blasphemer, whose character suits the case.]

230 Census.

231 So Bp. Kaye renders "carnem peccati." [See his valuable note, p. 253.]

232 We take the meminerimus to refer "to the Creed."

233 Suggestu.

234 Naturam.

235 Calpam.

236 "Tertullian, referring to St. Paul, says of Christ: `Evacuavit peccatum in carne; 0' alluding, as I suppose, to Romans viii. 3. But the corresponding Greek in the printed editions is kate/krine th\n a9marti/an e0n th=| sarki/ (`He condemned sin in the flesh 0'). Had Tertullian a different reading in his Greek mss., or did he confound Romans viii. 3 with Romans vi. 6, i#na katarghqh=| to\ sw=ma th\j a9marti/aj (`that the body of sin might be destroyed 0')? Jerome translates the Greek katarge/w by `evacuo, 0' c. xvi. See Adv. Marcionem, ver. 14. Dr. Neander has pointed out two passages in which Tertullian has `damnavit or damnaverit delinquentiam in carne. 0' See de Res. Carnis. 46; de Pudicitiâ. 17."-Bp. Kaye.

237 Also in Rom. viii. 3.

238 Peccatricis carnis.

239 Viri.

240 Transire in: "to pass into."

241 Sine coagulo.

242 Idonei.

243 Isa. vii. 14.

244 Matt. i. 23.

245 Gen. ii. 7.

246 Aemula.

247 Literally, "Gabriel."

248 Matt. xii. 41, 42.

249 De Hebionis opinione.

250 Hominis.

251 Viri.

252 Vacabat.

253 As we have often observed, the term Spiritus is used by Tertullian to express the Divine Nature in Christ. Anti-Marcion, p. 375, note 13.

254 Dispositio rationis.

255 Proferendum.

256 John i. 14.

257 Nec periclitatus quasi.

258 Literally, "in which it became flesh."

259 John iii. 6.

260 John iii. 6.

261 [A very perspicuous statement of the Incarnation is set forth in this chapter.]

262 Tertullian reads this in the singular number, "natus est."

263 John i. 13.

264 We need not say that the mass of critical authority is against Tertullian, and with his opponents, in their reading of this passage.

265 He refers to the Valentinians. See our translation of this tract against them, chap. xxv., etc., p. 515, supra.

266 Formalis nostrae nativitatis.

267 Despumatione.

268 Vis.

269 Medicando. [This is based on Job x. 10, a favourite passage with the Fathers in expounding the generative process.]

270 i.e., The Son of God.

271 Which is all that the heretics assign to Him.

272 Such as Valentinus ascribed to Him. See above, c. xv. p. 511.

273 Indicating the material or ingredient, "out of."

274 Per.

275 Ex.

276 Matt. i. 20.

277 Matt. i. 16.

278 Grammaticis.

279 Gal. iv. 4.

280 John i. 14.

281 Avulsisti.

282 Ps. xxii. 9.

283 Vers. 9, 10.

284 Ver. 10.

285 i.e. of His flesh.

286 Concarnatus et convisceratus: "united in flesh and internal structure."

287 Sentinam illam inferni sanguinis.

288 Lactiorem.

289 Avulsionem.

290 Isa. vii. 14; Matt. i. 23.

291 See the same passages.

292 Ipsius.

293 Quod concepit: or, "what she conceived."

294 Evacuabitur.

295 Luke i. 31.

296 An objection.


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