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Padres Ante-Nicenos, Vol. IV: Padres del siglo III: Tertuliano, Parte Cuarta; Minucio Félix; Comodio; Origen, Partes Primera y Segunda
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17 "Fas," strictly divine law, opp. to "jus," human law; thus "lawful," as opp. to "legal."
18 Plurifariam matrimoniis uti. The neut. pl. "matrimonia" is sometimes used for "wives." Comp. c. v. ad fin. and de Paen., c. xii. ad fin.
19 Sermo, i.e., probably the personal Word. Comp. de Or., c. i. ad init.
20 Rom. ii. 28, 29; Phil. iii. 3; Col. ii. 11.
21 Saeculi. The meaning here seems clearly to be, as in the text, "the Jewish age" or dispensation; as in the passages referred to - 1 Cor. x. 11, where it is ta telh twn aiwnwn; and Heb. ix. 26, where again it is twn aiwnwn, the Jewish and all preceding ages being intended.
22 "Jam hinc," i.e., apparently from the time of Christ's advent.
23 Matt. xix. 5, 6.
24 1 Cor. vii.
25 Matt. x. 23; perhaps confused with xxiii. 34.
26 Comp. de Idol., c. xxiii., and the note there on "se negant."
27 i.e., in martyrdom, on the ground of that open confession.
28 Non obest.
29 Phil. iii. 13, 14.
30 Laqueum = broxon (1 Cor. vii. 35), "a noose," "lasso" ("snare," Eng. ver.). "Laqueo trahuntur inviti" (Bengel).
31 See note 13.
32 Matt. xxvi. 41.
33 Adulamur: "we fawn upon," or "caress," or "flatter." Comp. de Paen., c. vi. sub init.: "flatter their own sweetness."
34 "Firmum," opp. to "infirmam" above. In the passage there referred to (Matt. xxvi. 41) the word is proqumon.
35 Tuemur. Mr. Dodgson renders, "guard not."
36 Species.
37 i.e., apparently second marriages: "disjunctis a matrimonio" can scarcely include such as were never "juncti;" and comp. the "praemissis maritis" below.
38 Comp. Phil. iv. 3; 2 Tim. ii. 19; Mal. iii. 16; and similar passages.
39 1 John i. 1; Luke xxiv. 39; John xx. 17.
40 Dignationem.
41 Or, "temporary."
42 Incubare.
43 Caedere sumptum.
44 Matt. vi. 28-30.
45 Matt. vi. 26.
46 Matt. vi. 31, 34.
47 Comp. Phil. iv. 19; 1 Tim. vi. 8.
48 Comp. 1 Cor. vii. 35, exp. in Eng. ver.
49 Recogita.
50 Comp. c. iv. above "praemissis maritis;" "when their husbands have preceded them (to glory)."
51 Saeculo.
52 Phil. i. 23; comp. de Pa., c. ix. ad fin.
53 i.e., to get children.
54 Expugnantur.
55 "Parricidiis." So Oehler seems to understand it.
56 Luke xxi. 23; Matt. xxiv. 19.
57 Saeculi.
58 "Expiasse" - a rare but Ciceronian use of the word.
59 Luke xvii. 28, 29.
60 Denotat.
61 Saeculi.
62 Saeculi. Comp. 1 Cor. x. 11; but the Greek there is, ta telh twn aiwnwn. By the "blindness," Tertullian may refer to Gen. xix. 11.
63 Or, "short" (Eng. ver.); 1 Cor. vii. 29. o kairo <\dq_ounestalmeno<\|dq_, "in collecto."
64 ""Matrimonia", " neut. pl. again for the fem., the abstract for the concrete. See c. ii., "to multiply wives," and the note there. In the Greek (1 Cor. vii. 29) it is <\dq_gunaika<\|dq_: but the ensuing chapter shows that Tertullian refers the passage to women as well.
65 Comp. de Pa., xiii., and Matt. xix. 12. Comp. too, de Ex. Cast., c. i.
66 i.e., Gentile women.
67 Oehler marks this as a question.
68 Matt. iii. 12.
69 Comp. Rev. xii. 9, and de Bapt., 1.
70 Pietatis.
71 Gehennae; comp. de Paen., c. xii. ad init.
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72 i.e., eternal life; comp. "consecutio aeternitatis," de Bapt., c. ii..
73 1 Cor. xv. 53; 2 Cor. v. 4.
74 Saeculo.
75 Mundo.
76 "Matrimonio," or "by matrimony." Comp. 1 Cor. vii. 27: dedesai gunaiki\ mh zhtei lusin lelusai apo gunaiko\ mh zhtei gunaika. Tertullian's rendering, it will be seen, is not verbatim.
77 "Matrimonio," or "by matrimony." Comp. 1 Cor. vii. 27: dedesai gunaiki\ mh zhtei lusin lelusai apo gunaiko\ mh zhtei gunaika. Tertullian's rendering, it will be seen, is not verbatim.
78 1 Cor. vii. 28.
79 Or, "been able" - valuminus. But comp. c. vi.
80 See c. iii., "quod autem necessitas praestat, depretiat ipsa," etc.
81 1 Tim. ii. 2; Tit. i. 6.
82 1 Tim. v. 9, 10.
83 Aram.
84 Comp. de Cor., c. i., "et de martyrii candida melius coronatus, " and Oehler's note.
85 Saeculi.
86 Or, "Pontifex maximus."
87 Or, "has been decreed by."
88 So Oehler reads, with Rhenanus and the mss. The other edd. have the plural in each case, as the LXX. in the passage referred to (Isa. i. 17, 18).
89 So Oehler reads, with Rhenanus and the mss. The other edd. have the plural in each case, as the LXX. in the passage referred to (Isa. i. 17, 18).
90 Desideraveris. Oehler reads "desideres."
91 Comp. c. iii.
92 1 Tim. v. 13.
93 Saeculum.
94 A verse said to be Menander's, quoted by St. Paul, 1 Cor. xv. 33; quoted again, but somewhat differently rendered, by Tertullian in b. i. c. iii.
95 i.e., here "female companions."
96 Phil. iii. 19.
97 Comp. c. i.
98 i.e., if I be called before you; comp. c. i.
1 Potissimum; Gr. "monon," 1 Cor. vii. 39.
2 Proclivium.
3 Ps. lxix. 23 (according to the "Great Bible" version, ed. 1539. This is the translation found in the "Book of Common Prayer"). Comp. Rom. xiv. 13.
4 Necessitatibus.
5 1 Cor. vii. 6-8.
6 Exerte. Comp. the use of "exertus" in de Bapt., cc. xii. and xviii.
7 1 Cor. vii. 39, where the monon en Kuriw is on the same footing as <\dq_gunh dedetai ef oson xronon zh o anhr auth<\|dq_: comp. c. ix. and Rom. vii. 1 (kn the Eng. ver. 2).
8 Praevaricationem. Comp. de Paen., c. iii.: "Dissimulator et praevaricator perspicaciae suae (Deus) non est."
9 1 Cor. vii. 12-14, in sense, not verbatim.
10 Mulieris.
11 Femina.
12 Comp. Eph. ii. 12, 19.
13 Comp. 1 Cor. vii. 15, 16, and Phil. iii. 8, in Vulg., for the word "lucrifieri."
14 1 Cor. vii. 17, inexactly given, like the two preceding citations.
15 1 Cor. vii. 39, not verbatim.
16 i.e., St. Paul, who, as inspired by the Holy Spirit, is regarded by Tertullian as merged, so to speak, in the Spirit.
17 "Exemplum," a rarer use of the word, but found in Cic. The reference is to 1 Cor. vii. 7.
18 Detrimenta.
19 Districta (? = dis-stricta, "doubly strict").
20 Comp. Phil. iii. 12, and c. vii. ad init.
21 See 1 Cor. vii. 14.
22 Comp. Jude 7, and above, "an alien and stranger," with the reference there.
23 Comp. de Pa., c. xii. (mid.), and the note there.
24 Comp. 1 Cor. v. 11.
25 The translator has ventured to read "die illo" here, instead of Oehler's "de illo."
26 1 Cor. iii. 16, comp. vi. 19.
27 1 Cor. vi. 15.
28 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20.
29 See the last reference, and Acts xx. 28, where the mss. vary between Qeou and Kuriou.
30 De proximo. Comp. de Pa., cc. v. and vii. "Deo de proximo amicus;" "de proximo in Deum peccat."
31 Comp. b. i. c. viii. sub. fin., where Tertullian quotes the same passage, but renders it somewhat differently.
32 Comp. Matt. vi. 24; Luke xvi. 13.
33 Saeculares.
34 For the meaning of "statio," see de Or., c. xix.
35 1 Tim. v. 10.
36 Comp. Matt. vi. 1-4.
37 Matt. vii. 6.
38 Insignia.
39 Comp. de Idol., c. xi. sub fin.
40 "Speculatorem;" also = an executioner. Comp. vi. 27.
41 Comp. Luke i. 38, and de Cult. Fem., b. ii. c. i. ad init.
42 Nominibus; al. honoribus.
43 Sanctis - inquis. Comp. St. Paul's antithesis of adikwn and agiwn in 1 Cor. vi. 1.
44 See 1 Cor. vi. 2,3.
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45 See Eph. v. 19.
46 So Oehler understands (apparently) the meaning to be. The translator is inclined to think that, adopting Oehler's reading, we may perhaps take the "Dei" with "aliquid," and the "coenans" absolutely, and render, "From the tavern, no doubt, while supping, she will hear some (strain) of God," in allusion to the former sentence, and to such passages as Ps. cxxxvii. 4 (in the LXX. it is cxxxvi. 4).
47 Comp. Phil. iii. 12, and c. ii. sub fin.
48 Comp. 1 Cor. vii. 16, and 1 Pet. iii. 1.
49 Tertullian here and in other places appears, as the best editors maintain, to use the masculine gender for the feminine.
50 Magnalia. Comp. 2 Cor. xii. 12.
51 Timore.
52 Comp. de Or., c. iii. (med.), "angelorum candidati;" and de Bapt., c. x. sub fin., "candidatus remissionis."
53 Oehler refers us to Tac., Ann., xii. 53, and the notes on that passage. (Consult especially Orelli's edition.)
54 The translator inclines to think that Tertullian, desiring to keep up the parallelism of the last-mentioned case, in which (see note 1) the slave's master had to give the "warning," means by "domino" here, not "the Lord," who on his hypothesis is the woman's Master, not the slave's, but the "lord" of the "unbeliever," i.e., the devil: so that the meaning would be (with a bitter irony, especially if we compare the end of the last chapter, where "the Evil One" is said to "procure" these marriages, so far is he from "condemning" them): "Forsooth, they" (i.e., the Christian women) "will deny that a formal warning has been given they by the lord:" (of the unbelievers, i.e., the Evil One) "through an apostle of his!" IF the other interpretation be correct, the reference will be to c. ii. above.
55 Saecularium.
56 Matt. xix. 23, 24; Mark x. 23, 24; Luke xviii. 24, 25; 1 Cor. i. 26, 27.
57 Matt. v. 3; but Tertullian has omitted "spiritu," which he inserts in de Pa., c. xi., where he refers to the same passage. In Luke vi. 20 there is no tw pneumati.
58 Censum.
59 Invecta. Comp. de Pa., c. xiii. ad init.
60 Filii.
61 Comp. de Or., c. v. ad fin.; de Pa., c. ix. ad fin.; ad Ux., i. c. v. ad init.
62 Gen. ii. 24; Matt. xix. 5; Mark x. i; Eph. v. 31.
63 Col. iii. 16.
64 Eph. v. 19; Col. iii. 16.
65 Comp. John xiv. 27.
66 Matt. xviii. 20.
67 Comp. 1 Cor. x. 23.
68 Eccl. Hist., Book III. cap. xxx.
69 Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., second edition, enlarged, 1884.
1 [Written, possibly, circa a.d. 204.]
2 Comp. c. iii. and the references there.
3 1 Thess. iv. 3.
4 Comp. 1 Cor. xi. 7, where the Greek is eikwn kai doca.
5 Lev. xi. 44; 1 Pet. i. 16.
6 Comp. 1 Cor. vii. 5; and ad Ux., b. i. c. vi.
7 Comp. ad Ux., b. i. c. viii.
8 Comp. Job i. 21.
9 Comp. Matt. x. 29.
10 Job i. 21 (on LXX. and Vulg.).
11 Adulari. Comp. de Paen., c. vi. sub init.; ad Ux., b. i. c. iv. ad init.
12 Or, "from" - de.
13 i.e., eternal life: as in de Bapt., c. ii.; ad Ux., b. i. c. vii. ad init.
14 De Paen., c. xii. ad fin.
15 In obaudientiam venerat.
16 From 1 Cor. vii.
17 Or, "decreed by."
18 1 Cor. vii. 8, 9.
19 1 Cor. vii. 27, 28.
20 Or, "to be a believer;" ver. 25.
21 Dirigendam.
22 Gen. ii. 21, 22.
23 Or, "but no plurality of wives."
24 Apud. Deum.
25 Gen. ii. 24.
26 Eph. v. 31.
27 Gen. iv. 18, 19.
28 Gen. i. 28.
29 Repastinationis. Comp. de Cult. Fem., l. ii. c. ix., repastinantes.
30 Comp. Matt. iii. 10.
31 Ex. xxi. 24; Lev. xxiv. 20; Deut. xix. 21; Matt. v. 38.
32 See Rom. xii. 17; Matt. v. 39; 1 Thess. v. 16.
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33 I cannot find any such passage. Oehler refers to Lev. xxi. 14, but neither the Septuagint nor the Vulgate has any such prohibition there.
34 Matt. v. 17, very often referred to by Tertullian.
35 Comp. 1 Tim. iii. 1, 2; Tit. i. 5, 6; and Ellicott's Commentary.
36 Sacerdotibus.
37 Rev. i. 6.
38 See Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17; Gal. iii. 11; Heb. x. 38.
39 Rom. ii. 13; Eph. vi. 9; Col. iii. 25; 1 Pet. i. 17; Deut. x. 17.
40 Eph. iv. 5, 6.
41 1 Cor. x. 23.
42 See 1 Cor. ix. 5.
43 See vers. 4, 9-18.
44 In occasionem.
45 Sibi, "themselves," i.e., mutually. See 1 Cor. vii. 32-35.
46 Matt. v. 28. See de Idol., cc. ii. xxiii.; de Paen., c. iii.; de Cult. Fem., l. ii. c. ii.; de Pa., c. vi.
47 But compare, or rather, contrast, herewith, ad Ux., l. i. cc. ii. iii.
48 Comp. ad Ux., l. i. c. viii.; c. i. above; and de Virg. Vel., c. x.
49 Comp. ad Ux., l. i. c. v. ad fin.
50 Dimisisti, al. amisisti = "you have lost."
51 Or, "amass" - negotiaberis. See Luke xix. 15.
52 Comp. 1 Tim. iv. 15.
53 Placet sibi.
54 See 1 Cor. vii. 5.
55 i.e., guilty.
56 See Lev. xi. 44, 45, xix. 2, xx. 7, LXX. and Vulg.
57 See Ps. xviii. 25, 26, esp. in Vulg. and LXX., where it is xvii. 26, 27.
58 See Eph. iv. 1; Col. i. 10; 1 Thess. ii. 12.
59 See Rom. viii. 5, 6, esp. in Vulg.
60 A Marcionite prophetess, also called Priscilla.
61 Comp. herewith, ad Ux., l. i. c. iv.
62 Or "purses."
63 Comp. 2 Tim. ii. 3, 4; Heb. ii. 10.
64 Or "age" - saeculo. Comp. Ps. xxxix. 12 (in LXX. xxxviii. 13, as in Vulg.) and Heb. xi. 13.
65 Comp. Matt. vi. 34; Jas. iv. 13-15.
66 Comp. Phil. i. 23.
67 Aegium (Jos. Scaliger, in Oehler).
68 But Tertullian overlooks the fact that both Ovid and Virgil represent her as more than willing to marry Aeneas. [Why should he note the fables of poets? This testimony of a Carthaginian is historic evidence of the fact.]
69 Comp. Matt. xxii. 29, 30; Mark xii. 24, 25; Luke xx. 34-36.
70 Chap. Vi. Vol. iii. P. 672, this series.
71 Hooker, Eccl. Polity, b. iii. Cap. i. 14.
1 [Written against orthodoxy, say circa a.d. 208. But see Elucidation I.].
2 Gal. v. 17.
3 In aevum; eij ton aiwna (LXX.); in aeternum (Vulg.).
4 Gen. vi. 3.
5 Comp. 1 Cor. xi. 2; 2 Thess. ii. 15, iii. 6. Comp. the Gr. text and the Vulg. in locis.
6 See Matt. xi. 30.
7 John xvi. 12, 13. Tertullian's rendering is not verbatim.
8 See John xvi. 14.
9 See Matt. xix. 12. Comp. de. Pa., c. xiii.; de. Cult. Fem., l. ii. c. ix.
10 See 1 Cor. vii. 1, 7, 37, 40; and comp. de Ex. Cast., c. iv.
11 1 Cor. vii. 29.
12 1 Cor. vii. 32-34.
13 Comp. ad Ux., l. i. c. iii.; de Cult. Fem., l. ii. c. x. sub fin.; and de Ex. Cast., c. iii., which agrees nearly verbatim with what follows.
14 1 Cor. vii. 7, only the Greek is qelw, not boulomai.
15 1 John ii. 6.
16 1 John iii. 3.
17 There is no such passage in any Epistle of St. John. There is one similar in 1 Pet. i. 15.
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18 Disciplinam.
19 Eccles. iii. 1.
20 1 Cor. vii. 29.
21 Comp. Rom. viii. 26.
22 Septuagies. See Gen. iv. 19-24.
23 Comp. Gen. vii. 7 with 1 Pet. iii. 20 ad fin.
24 Comp. Gen. vi. 19, 20.
25 See Gen. vii. 3.
26 See Matt. xix. 6.
27 Eph. i. 9, 10. The Latin of Tertullian deserves careful comparison with the original Greek of St. Paul.
28 See John i. 1-15.
29 1 Cor. xv. 46.
30 See Matt. xxiii. 9.
31 1 Cor. iv. 15, where it is dia tou euaggeliou.
32 Gal. iii. 7.
33 This is an error. Comp. Gen. xvi. with Gen. xvii.
34 See Gal. iii. iv. and comp. Rom. iv.
35 See Gen. xvii. 5.
36 See Rom. iv. 11, 12, Gal. iii. 7; and comp. Matt. iii. 9; Joh viii. 39.
37 See Gal. iv. 21-31.
38 See vers. 28, 31.
39 See Ps. xxxvii. 27 (in LXX. xxxvi. 27); 1 Pet. iii. 11; 3 John 11.
40 Dei de proximo arbitrum. See Num. xii. 6-8; Deut. xxxiv. 10.
41 See Matt. v. 17.
42 See Acts xv. 10.
43 Matt. v. 20.
44 Deut. xxv. 5, 6.
45 See Matt. xxii. 23-33; Mark xii. 18-27; Luke xx. 26-38. Comp. ad Ux., l. i.
46 Gen. i. 28. Comp. de Ex. Cast., c. vi.
47 See Ex. xx. 5; and therefore there must be sons begotten from whom to exact them.
48 Comp. de Ex. Cast., c. vi.
49 See Jer. xxxi. 29, 30 (in LXX. xxxviii. 29, 30); Ezek. xviii. 1-4.
50 Matt. xix. 12, often quoted.
51 Matt. xxiii. 8.
52 1 Cor. vii. 39.
53 "Adimit;" but the two mss. extant of this treatise read "admittit" = admits.
54 Lev. xx. 21, not exactly given.
55 Lev. xxii. 13, where there is no command to her to return, in the Eng. ver.: in the LXX. there is.
56 Ex. xx. 12 in brief.
57 Summus sacerdos et magnus patris. But Oehler notices a conjecture of Jos. Scaliger, "agnus patris," when we must unite "the High Priest and Lamb of the Father."
58 De suo. Comp. de Bapt., c. xvii., ad fin.; de Cult. Fem., l. i. c. v., . ii. c. ix.; de Ex. Cast., c. iii. med.; and for the ref. see Rev. iii. 18.
59 Gal. iii. 27; where it is eij Xriston, however.
60 See Rev. i. 6.
61 Matt. viii. 21, 22; Luke ix. 59, 60.
62 Lev. xxi. 11.
63 See Matt. xi. 9; Luke vii. 26.
64 See Mark i. 29, 30.
65 See Matt. xvi. 13-19. Comp. de Pu., c. xxi.
66 See 1 Cor. ix. 1-5.
67 See Luke viii. 1-3; Matt. xxvii. 55, 56.
68 Matt. xxiii. 1-3.
69 See Matt. xviii. 1-4, xix. 13-15; Mark x. 13-15.
70 Alios post nuptias pueros. The reference seems to be to Matt. xix. 12.
71 See John iv. 16-18.
72 See Matt. xvii. 1-8; Mark ix. 2-9; Luke ix. 28-36.
73 See Luke i. 17.
74 See Matt. xi. 19; Luke vii. 34.
75 See John ii. 1-11.
76 See Matt. xix. 3-8, where, however, Tertullian's order is reversed. Comp. with this chapter, c. v. above.
77 See Matt. x. 29. Comp. de Ex. Cast., c. i. ad fin.
78 See Matt. v. 32.
79 Gen. ii. 23, in reversed order again.
80 Comp. Rom. vii. 1-3.
81 Comp. Matt. xix. 8; Mark x. 5.
82 See Matt. xxii. 30; Mark xii. 25; Luke xx. 35, 36.
83 Comp. 1 Cor. iii. 8.
84 Comp. John xiv. 2.
85 Matt. xx. 1-16.
86 See Matt. v. 42; Luke vi. 30. Comp. de Bapt., c. xviii.
87 1 Cor. vii. 39, not rendered with very strict accuracy.
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88 See c. v. above.
89 See de Ex. Cast., c. vii.
90 Comp. 1 Cor. iii. 2 with Heb. v. 11-14.
91 1 Cor. vii. 1, 2.
92 See 1 Tim. iii. 1-7; Tit. i. 6-9.
93 1 Tim. v. 14.
94 Rom. vii. 2, 3, not exactly rendered.
95 Comp. the marginal reading in the Eng. ver., Rom. vii. 6.
96 Comp. Eph. i. 23, and the references there.
97 Acts xvi. 3; see Gal. iii. iv.
98 Comp. Acts xxi. 20-26.
99 See Gal. iii. iv.
100 See 1 Cor. ix. 22.
101 Gal. iv. 19.
102 Matt. xxvi. 41.
103 Matt. xix. 12.
104 See Matt. xix. 16-26; Mark x. 17-27; Luke xviii. 18-27.
105 See Deut. xxx. 1, 15, 19, and xi. 26. See, too, de Ex. Cast., c. ii.
106 See 1 Tim. iv. 1-3.
107 See Matt. xxiv. 13, and the references there.
108 See Matt. vi. 25-34.
109 See 1 Cor. xv. 32.
110 Matt. xxiv. 19; Luke xxi. 23. Comp. ad Ux., l. i. c. v.
111 Concussione. Comp. Hag. ii. 6, 7; Heb. xii. 26, 27.
112 Mundi.
113 Comp. Ex. i. 8-16.
114 Spado.
115 Comp. ad Ux., l. i. cc. vi. vii.; and de Ex. Cast., c. xiii.
116 See Rom. xiii. 14; Gal. iii. 27.
117 Or "chastity."
118 Comp. 1 Cor. xv. 22, en tw Adam.
119 See Rom. vi. 3.
120 P. 40, Kaye's Tertullian.
121 P. 24, Kaye's Tertullian.
122 Comp. Bacon, Essays, No. viii., Of Marriage and Single Life.
123 Comp. Ex. Cast., cap. viii. p. 55, supra, with the Monogam., cap. viii. p. 65, supra.
124 Comp. Apparel of Women, ii. cap. ix. p. 23, supra.
1 [Written not earlier than a.d. 208; probably very much later. See Bp. Kaye's very important remarks on this treatise, p. 224.]
2 Comp. 2 Tim. iii. 1-5; Matt. xxiv. 12.
3 Saeculi.
4 Saeculo.
5 Tit. iii. 5.
6 Comp. Matt. xxv. 46.
7 [This is irony; a heathen epithet applied to Victor (or his successor), ironically, because he seemed ambitious of superiority over other bishops.]
8 Zephyrinus (de Genoude): Zephyrinus or (his predecessor) Victor. J. B. Lightfoot, Ep. ad Phil., 221, 222, ed. 1, 1868. [See also Robertson, Ch. Hist., p. 121. S.]
9 Matt. xxi. 13; Mark xi. 17; Luke xix. 46; Jer. vii. 11.
10 See Luke ii. 52.
11 1 Cor. xiii. 11, one clause omitted.
12 Comp. Gal. i. 14 with 2 Thess. ii. 15.
13 See Gal. v. 12.
14 1 Cor. vii. 9, repeatedly quoted.
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15 See Matt. xix. 17; Mark x. 18; Luke xviii. 19.
16 See Ex. xxxiv. 6, 7.
17 Hos. vi. 6; Mic. vi. 8; Matt. ix. 13, xii. 7.
18 Ezek. xviii. 23, 32, xxxiii. 11.
19 1 Tim. iv. 10.
20 1 John iii. 1, 2.
21 Luke vi. 36.
22 Matt. v. 9.
23 Comp. Matt. x. 8; but the reference seems to be to Eph. iv. 32, where the Vulgate reads almost as Tertullian does, "donantes invicem, sicut et Deus in Christo donavit vobis."
24 Matt. vii. 1; Luke vi. 37.
25 Comp. Rom. xiv. 4.
26 Comp. Luke vi. 37.
27 See Rom. xi. 22.
28 Comp. Isa. xlv. 21; Rom. iii. 26.
29 Comp. Job v. 18; Deut. xxxii. 39.
30 Isa. xlv. 7.
31 Jer. xiv. 11, 12, vii. 16, xi. 14.
32 Jer. xi. 14.
33 Jer. vii. 16.
34 Comp. Ex. xx. 5, xxxiv. 14; Deut. iv. 24, v. 9, vi. 15; Josh. xxiv. 19; Nahum i. 2.
35 Gal. vi. 7.
36 Comp. Rom. xv. 5; Ps. vii. 12 (in LXX.).
37 Isa. xlii. 14.
38 Comp. Ps. xcvii. 3.
39 Comp. Matt. x. 28; Luke xii. 4, 5.
40 Matt. vii. 2; Luke vi. 37.
41 Or rather incest, as appears by 1 Cor. v. 1.
42 1 Cor. v. 5.
43 See 1 Cor. vi. 1-6, v. 12.
44 Luke xi. 4.
45 Comp. John xx. 23.
46 1 John v. 16, not quite verbatim.
47 Matt. v. 9.
48 Job xxxii. 21; Lev. xix. 15, and the references there.
49 Comp. Isa. xliii. 18.
50 Comp. Luke ix. 62.
51 There is no passage, so far as I am aware, in Isaiah containing this distinct assertion. We have almost the exact words in Rev. xxi. 4. The reference may be to Isa. xlii. 9; but there the Eng. ver. reads, "are come to pass," and the LXX. have ta ap arxhj idou hkasi.
52 Comp. Jer. iv. 3 in LXX.
53 Comp. Phil. iii. 13.
54 Comp. Matt. xi. 13; Luke xvi. 16.
55 See Matt. v. 17.
56 See Acts xv. 10.
57 See Gal. ii. 4, v. 1, 13.
58 Ps. i. 1, briefly.
59 Ps. xix. 7: "perfect," Eng. ver. In LXX. it is xviii. 8.
60 Rom. vii. 12, not literally.
61 Rom. iii. 31.
62 Matt. v. 27, 28.
63 Matt. v. 21, 22.
64 See 1 Kings xxi. (in LXX. 3 Kings xx).
65 See 2 Sam. xi., xii. 1-13.
66 See Gen. xix. 30-38.
67 See Gen. xxxviii.
68 See Hos. i. 2, 3, iii. 1-3.
69 See Num. xxv. 1-9; 1 Cor. x. 8.
70 See Gen. iii. 6; and comp. 1 John ii. 16.
71 See Gen. iii. 7.
72 John i. 14.
73 Or, "chastity."
74 Comp. 2 Cor. v. 17.
75 1 Cor. xii. 27.
76 Ib. and vi. 15.
77 1 Cor. iii. 16, vi. 19.
78 Gal. iii. 27.
79 Comp. 1 Cor. vi. 20, and the references there.
80 Luke xv. 3-7.
81 Comp. John x. 27.
82 Comp. Acts xx. 28.
83 Comp. John x. 11.
84 Comp. Rom. iii. 29.
85 Luke xv. 8-10.
86 Comp. Ps. cxix. 105 (in LXX. cxviii. 105).
87 Comp. 1 John i. 5-7, ii. 8; also Rom. xiii. 12, 13; 1 Thess. v. 4, 5.
88 See Ezek. xxxiv. 1-4.
89 See Ex. iv. 22; Rom. ix. 4.
90 Comp. Isa. vi. 9.
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91 Comp. Isa. xxix. 21.
92 Comp. Jer. xx. 7, 8.
93 Comp. Isa. i. 2-4.
94 See Ps. lxxviii. 30, 31 (in LXX. it is lxxvii. 30, 31).
95 Or "age" - saeculi. Comp. 1 Cor. ii. 6.
96 Comp. Rom. xii. 6.
97 Comp. Rom. ix. 10-13; Gen. xxv. 21-24.
98 Comp. Rom. xi. 11-36.
99 Oehler refers to Deut. xxiii. 19; but the ref. is not satisfactory.
100 Extraneum. Comp. such phrases as "strange children," Ps. cxliv. 7, 11 (cxliii. 7, 11, in LXX.), and Hos. v. 7; "strange gods," etc.
101 See Luke v. 1, 2; Matt. ix. 10, 11, xi. 19; Mark ii. 15, 16; Luke v. 29, 30.
102 See Acts x. 28, xi. 3.
103 Saeculi. Comp. 1 Cor. ii. 8; 2 Cor. iv. 4.
104 Besides the reference to Luke xv. 23, there may be a reference to Heb. vi. 6.
105 See Matt. xxii. 11-14.
106 See Matt. xviii. 11.
107 Matt. ix. 12; Mark ix. 17; Luke v. 21.
108 1 Cor. i. 21.
109 Saeculi.
110 Amos viii. 11.
111 See Matt. viii. 30-34; Mark v. 11-14; Luke viii. 32, 33.
112 Comp. 1 Pet. iii. 21; and Hooker, Eccl. Pol., v. 63. 3.
113 Comp. Jonah i. iv.
114 See Luke i. 76.
115 See Luke iii. 8, 12, 14.
116 Matt. xi. 21; Luke x. 13.
117 Comp. Luke vi. 35.
118 i.e., the "Shepherd" of Hermas. See de Or., c. xvi.
119 John iv. 1-25.
120 Comp. c. iii. above.
121 Comp. Matt. xxvi. 28, Mark xiv. 24, Luke xxii. 21, with Heb. ix. 11-20.
122 See Acts xv. 28, 29.
123 See Acts xv. 30 and xvi. 4.
124 Saeculo.
125 See 1 Cor. v. 5.
126 See 2 Cor. ii. 5-11.
127 Comp. Gen. xlix. 4.
128 Comp. Matt. xxv. 32, 33.
129 2 Thess. iii. 14, 15.
130 Comp. 1 Cor. v. 2.
131 1 Tim. i. 20.
132 2 Cor. xii. 7-10.
133 2 Cor. xii. 9, not very exactly rendered.
134 Aevo. Comp. Matt. xii. 32.
135 1 Tim. i. 19.
136 1 Cor. v. 6, where Tertullian appears to have used doloi, not zumoi.
137 Comp. 2 Thess. iii. 6, 11.
138 1 Cor. i. 14, 15; but the Greek is, eij to emon onoma.
139 1 Cor. ii. 2.
140 1 Cor. ix. 1.
141 Comp. 1 Cor. ix. 15.
142 1 Cor. vi. 3.
143 1 Cor. iv. 8, inaccurately.
144 1 Cor. viii. 2, inaccurately.
145 See 2 Cor. xi. 20.
146 1 Cor. iv. 7, with some words omitted.
147 Comp. Acts xxiii. 2.
148 1 Cor. viii. 7, 12, inaccurately.
149 Comp. Gal. ii. 18.
150 Comp. 2 Cor. x. 9.
151 Comp. Rom. i. 1, and the beginnings of his Epp. passim.
152 1 Tim. ii. 7.
153 Acts ix. 15.
154 Comp. Dan. ii. 8.
155 Comp. 1 Cor. v. 3.
156 Comp. Rev. i. 20, ii. 1, 8, 12, 18, iii. 1, 7, 14.
157 2 Cor. iv. 1, 2.
158 Ib., vi. 5, 6.
159 2 Cor. vi. 16-18.
160 2 Cor. vii. 1, not accurately given.
161 2 Cor. xii. 21, again inexactly given.
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162 1 Cor. iii. 16, inexactly.
163 Ver. 17, not quite correctly.
164 Ver. 18.
165 1 Cor. vi. 9, 10.
166 Ver. 11, inexactly.
167 Ver. 13.
168 Comp. Gen. i. 26, 27.
169 John i. 14.
170 1 Cor. vi. 14.
171 John ii. 19.
172 1 Cor. vi. 15-17.
173 1 Cor. vi. 18.
174 Comp. 1 Pet. i. 19; and c. vi. above, ad fin.
175 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20, not exactly.
176 1 Cor. vii. 1-3.
177 Ib., ver. 6.
178 1 Cor. vii. 8, 9.
179 Matt. v. 32.
180 1 Cor. vii. 26-28, constantly quoted in previous treatises.
181 Mundo.
182 Vers. 32, 33, loosely.
183 1 Cor. vii. 38.
184 Vers. 39, 40.
185 Puto: Gr. dokw.
186 Ver. 40 ad fin.
187 1 Thess. ii. 3, omitting the last clause.
188 1 Thess. iv. 3-5.
189 Gal. v. 19-21.
190 Rom. vi. 1-11.
191 Ver. 12.
192 See Rom. vii. 18.
193 This exact expression does not occur; but comp. 2 Cor. iii. 6.
194 Comp. the last reference and Rom. viii. 2.
195 Rom. viii. 2, omitting en Xristw Ihsou, and substituting (unless it be a misprint) "te" for me.
196 Rom. viii. 3-5.
197 Ver. 6.
198 Ver. 7.
199 Ver. 8.
200 Ver. 12.
201 See Eph. v. 12.
202 As he did to the Galatians: see Gal. v. 19-21.
203 Eph. ii. 3, briefly, and not literally.
204 Eph. iv. 17-20.
205 Ver. 28.
206 Ver. 29 ad init.
207 Eph. v. 3.
208 Vers. 5, 6, not accurately.
209 Ver. 18.
210 See Col. iii. 5, 8.
211 Comp. Acts xvi. 1-3 with Gal. v. 2-6, and similar passages.
212 Prov. vi. 32-34.
213 Isa. lii. 11, quoted in 2 Cor. vi. 17.
214 Ps. i. 1 in LXX.
215 i.e., the voice of this "blessed man," this true "Asher."
216 Ps. xxvi. 4, 5 (in LXX. xxv. 4, 5).
217 Ps. xxvi. (xxv. in LXX.) 6, not quite exactly.
218 Ps. xviii. 25, 26 (in LXX. Ps. xviii. 26, 27), nearly.
219 Ps. l. (xlix. in LXX.) 16, 18.
220 1 Cor. v. 9-11.
221 Ver. 6.
222 1 Tim. v. 22.
223 Eph. v. 7, 8 ad init.
224 Vers. 11, 12.
225 2 Thess. iii. 6.
226 Eph. v. 26, 27.
227 Comp. Jude 23 ad fin.
228 Comp. Ezek. xxxiii. 11, etc.; and see cc. ii., xxii.
229 See 1 Tim. i. 15.
230 1 Tim. i. 13, 16.
231 See cc. iii. and xi., above.
232 Or, "saith and teacheth that she is a prophet."
233 Rev. ii. 18, 20-22.
234 1 Cor. xv. 11.
235 i.e., of heathen and heretic.
236 See the end of the foregoing chapter.
237 Rev. xxi. 8.
238 Rev. xxii. 14, 15.
239 1 Cor. v. 12 ad init.
240 1 John i. 7 ad fin.
241 Vers. 5, 6.
242 Ver. 8, incorrectly.
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243 1 John i. 8, 9.
244 1 John i. 9.
245 1 John ii. 1, 2.
246 Iniquitatem = anomian.
247 Iniquitas; anomia = "lawlessness."
248 See Col. ii. 13, 14.
249 1 John iii. 3-10.
250 1 John iii. 10.
251 Eph. iv. 26.
252 1 John v. 16. But Tertullian has rendered aitein and erwtan by the one word postulare. See Trench, N. T. Synonyms, pp. 169-173. ed. 4, 1858.
253 So Oehler; but it appears that a "non" must have been omitted.
254 Vers. 17, 18.
255 1 Cor. ix. 6; but our copies read, tou mh ergazesqai.
256 Comp. Heb. vi. 1, 4-6.
257 Vers. 7, 8.
258 See Lev. xiii. 12-14 (in LXX.).
259 Saeculo.
260 See Lev. xiv. 33-42.
261 See Rev. vi. 4, 8.
262 Comp. Matt. iii. 9; Luke iii. 8.
263 Lev. xiv. 43-45.
264 See Lev. xix. 20.
265 Comp. 2 Cor. xi. 2.
266 Eph. v. 11. See ch. xviii. above.
267 Mark ii. 7; Luke v. 21.
268 Comp. Ps. li. 4 (in LXX. Ps. l. 6).
269 Matt. xviii. 22.
270 Comp. Acts ix. 36-43, xx. 9-12.
271 Comp. Acts iii. 1-11, v. 13-16.
272 Acts v. 1-6.
273 Acts xiii. 6-12.
274 Comp. 2 Sam. xii. 1-14, etc.
275 Kaye suggests "apostolica et prophetica" - "apostolic and prophetic evidences;" which is very probable.
276 Comp. 1 Pet. v. 1-4.
277 Comp. John xv. 26.
278 Matt. xvi. 18.
279 Matt. xvi. 19 ad init., incorrectly.
280 Matt. xvi. 19.
281 Acts ii. 22 et seqq.
282 See Acts xv. 7-11.
283 Comp. John xx. 23.
284 See de Or., c. ii.
285 See Matt. xviii. 20.
286 Comp. de Fe., c. xii.
287 Saeculi.
288 See 1 Cor. xv. 32.
289 See Acts xxii. 28.
290 Luke xxiii. 39-43.
291 See 1 John iii. v.
292 See Heb. vii. 26-viii. 1.
293 See 1 Pet. iii. 18.
294 See Matt. xxv. 8, 9.
295 See Mark ii. 9-11.
296 Luke xii. 50.
297 John xix. 33, 34.
298 Comp. de Monog., c. xv.
299 On Prayer, vol. iii. cap. xvi. p. 686, supra, where he speaks respectfully.
300 Vol. ii. p. 22 (also p. 43), this series.
1 [Written, say, circa a.d. 208.]
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2 i.e., Psychic.
3 [Which is a note of time, not unimportant.]
4 Lev. xvi. 29, xxiii. 26-29.
5 Matt. ix. 14, 15; Mark ii. 18-20; Luke v. 33-35.
6 Luke xvi. 16; Matt. xi. 13.
7 Comp. Gal. v. 1.
8 Comp. 1 Cor. x. 25.
9 Comp. 1 Tim. iv. 3.
10 So Oehler punctuates. The reference is to 1 Tim. iv. 1, 2.
11 See Gal. iv. 10; the words kai kairouj Tertullian omits.
12 See Isa. lviii. 3-7.
13 See Matt. xv. 11; Mark vii. 15.
14 Matt. xi. 19; Luke vii. 34.
15 1 Cor. viii. 8.
16 Rom. x. 10.
17 Comp. Matt. xxii. 37-40, and the parallel passages.
18 See Gen. ii. 16, 17.
19 Comp. Eph. v. 32 with Gen. ii. 23, 24.
20 See 1 Cor. ii. 14.
21 The references is to Ps. li. 17 (in LXX. Ps. l. 19).
22 Gen. i. 29.
23 See Gen. ix. 2-5 (in LXX.).
24 See Gen. ix. 5, 6.
25 See Luke xii. 48.
26 Comp. Ps. cxxxvi. 12 (in LXX. cxxxv. 12).
27 See Ex. iii. 8.
28 See Ex. xvi. 1-3.
29 Comp. Num. xx. 1-12 with Ps. cvi. 31-33 (in LXX. cv. 31-33).
30 See Num. xi. 1-6.
31 See Ps. lxxviii. 25 (in LXX. lxxvii. 25).
32 Comp. 1 Cor. x. 7 with Ex. xxxii. 6.
33 See Deut. xxxii. 15.
34 See Deut. viii. 12-14.
35 Comp. Eccles. vi. 7; Prov. xvi. 26. (The LXX. render the latter quotation very differently from the Eng. ver. or the Vulg.)
36 See Isa. vi. 10; John xii. 40; Acts xxviii. 26, 27.
37 See Lev. iii. 17.
38 See Deut. viii. 3; Matt. iv. 4; Luke iv. 4.
39 See Ps. lxxxvi. 4 (in LXX. lxxxv. 4); Lam. iii. 41 (in LXX. iii. 40).
40 Twice over. See Ex. xxiv. 18 and xxxiv. 28; Deut. ix. 11, 25.
41 See Ex. xxxiii. 18, 19, with xxxiv. 4-9, 29-35.
42 See Matt. xvii. 1-13; Mark ix. 1-13; Luke ix. 28-36.
43 See Jas. vi. 17.
44 See 1 Kings xvii. 1 (in LXX. 3 Kings ib.).
45 See 1 Kings xix. 1-8. But he took two meals: see vers. 6, 7, 8.
46 Vers. 9, 13.
47 Gen. iii. 9 (in LXX.).
48 Comp. Matt. xvii. 4; Mark ix. 5; Luke ix. 33.
49 See Ps. xl. 28 in LXX. In E. V., "fainteth not."
50 See Zech. vii. 5.
51 See 2 Kings xviii. xix.; 2 Chron. xxxii.; Isa. xxxvi. xxxvii.
52 See Jonah iii. Comp. de Pa., c. x.
53 See Ezek. xvi. 49; Matt. xi. 23, 24; Luke x. 12-14.
54 See 1 Kings xxi. (in the LXX. it is 3 Kings xx).
55 See 1 Sam. i. 1, 2, 7-20, iii. 20 (in LXX. 1 Kings).
56 Dan. ix. 23, x. 11.
57 See Bel and the Dragon (in LXX.) vers. 31-39. "Pitiable" appears to be Tertullian's rendering of what in the E. V. is rendered "greatly beloved." Rig. (in Oehler) renders: "of how great compassion thou hast attained the favour;" but surely that overlooks the fact that the Latin is "miserabilis es," not "sis."
58 See Luke ii. 36-38. See de Monog., c. viii.
59 Matt. iv. 12; Luke iv. 1, 2; comp. de Bapt., c. xx.
60 See Matt. iv. 3; Luke iv. 3.
61 See c. ii.
62 Comp. Eph. iv. 22, 23; and, for the meaning of sugillationem ("severe handling"), comp. 1 Cor. ix. 27, where St. Paul's word upwpiazw (= "I smite under the eye," Eng. ver. "I keep under") is perhaps exactly equivalent in meaning.
63 Matt. vi. 16-18.
64 See Matt. xvii. 21; Mark ix. 29.
65 See Acts x. 44-46, 1-4 and 30.
66 2 Cor. xi. 27.
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67 Dan. i.
68 See Dan. x. 1-3, 5, 12.
69 See 1 Kings xvii. (in LXX. 3 Kings xvii.) 1-6.
70 1 Kings xix. 3-7.
71 See Ps. cii. (in LXX. ci.) 9.
72 1 Sam. (in LXX. 1 Kings) i. 11.
73 1 Sam. i. 15.
74 See Lev. x. 9.
75 See Rom. xiii. 13.
76 1 Tim. v. 23.
77 See Acts x. 9.
78 Acts ii. 1-4, 13, 15.
79 The reference is to Eph. vi. 18; Col. iv. 2; 1 Thess. v. 17; Luke xviii. 1.
80 See Dan. vi. 10.
81 See Phil. iii. 15.
82 John xiv. 26, xvi. 13.
83 See Matt. xxvii. 45-54; Mark xvi. 33-39; Luke xxiii. 44-47.
84 See Ex. xvii. 8-12.
85 See Josh. x. 12-14.
86 See 1 Sam. (in LXX. 1 Kings) xiv. 24-25.
87 See Dan. ix. 1, 3, 4, 20, 21.
88 Comp. de Or., c. xxviii.
89 Comp. 2 Pet. iii. 16.
90 See 1 John ii. 18, 29; 2 John 7-10.
91 1 Cor. iv. 8.
92 See the Vulg. iv. 1, 2; 2 Tim. iii. 1; and comp. therewith the Greek in both places.
93 1 Cor. ix. 19; saeculo.
94 Ps. cxxxiii. (in LXX. and Vulg. cxxxii.).
95 See Rom. xii. 15.
96 Comp. 1 Cor. v. 3; Col. ii. 5.
97 Comp. Gal. iv. 10.
98 Comp. Luke xxii. 20; 2 Cor. v. 17, etc.
99 Comp. Mark xv. 42.
100 Comp. Matt. xiii. 52 ad fin.
101 Rom. xiv. 20.
102 Ver. 21.
103 Rom. xiv. 17.
104 Comp. Luke vi. 21 and 25, and Matt. v. 6.
105 John iv. 31-34.
106 John vi. 27.
107 Matt. vi. 11; Luke xi. 3.
108 See Hor., Od., i. 1, 12, and Macleane's note there.
109 See Isa. lviii. 3, 4, 5, briefly, and more like the LXX. than the Vulg. or the Eng. ver.
110 See Ps. li. (l. in LXX. and Vulg.) 18, 19; see c. iii. above.
111 This seems an oversight; see 1 Sam. (in LXX. and Vulg. 1 Kings) iv. 13.
112 1 Sam. iv. 17-21.
113 1 Sam. ii. 12-17, 22-25.
114 See 1 Kings (in LXX. and Vulg. 3 Kings) xiii.
115 Luke xvi. 19-31.
116 Joel ii. 15.
117 Comp. Gen. xxiii. 2, 3, 4, 31, and xxv. 27-34.
118 Rom. xiii. 13.
119 1 Tim. v. 17.
120 Isa. xxii. 13; 1 Cor. xv. 32.
121 Rom. viii. 8.
122 John iii. 34.
123 Matt. vii. 13, 14; Luke xiii. 24.
124 Mundi: cf. kosmokratoraj, Eph. vi. 12.
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125 II. cap. 10, p. 23, supra.
126 Cap. 8, p. 55, supra.
127 See our minor titlepage.
128 Capp. 2, 13, 14, supra.
129 Cap. 14. See De Orat., cap. 19, p. 687.
130 The Xerophagiae, cap. 2, p. 103.
131 Scientific Culture, by J. P. Cooke, professor of chemistry, etc. New York, 1884.
132 This is ambiguous, but I merely note it. Heb. iv. 15.
1 [Written, say, circa a.d. 208.]
2 Matt. iii. 12.
3 Gen. xxviii. 12.
4 2 Cor. xii. 9.
5 1 Cor. i. 27, 28.
6 Job i. 12.
7 Luke xxii. 31, 32.
8 Matt. vi. 13.
9 Mark v. 11.
10 1 Sam. xvi. 14.
11 2 Cor. xii. 7.
12 2 Tim. i. 15; see 1 Tim. i. 20.
13 Isa. xlv. 7.
14 Deut. xxxii. 39.
15 Zech. xiii. 9.
16 Matt. x. 29.
17 Matt. x. 23.
18 Matt. x. 5.
19 Matt. x. 17.
20 Matt. x. 23.
21 Acts xiii. 46.
22 Ps. xix. 4.
23 Acts xxi. 13.
24 Matt. x. 32, 33.
25 Mark viii. 38; Luke ix. 26.
26 Matt. v. 11.
27 Matt. x. 22.
28 Matt. x. 28.
29 Matt. x. 37, 38.
30 Rev. xxi. 8.
31 Matt. xxvi. 38.
32 Matt. xxvi. 41.
33 Matt. xxvi. 39.
34 1 Thess. v. 14.
35 Eph. iv. 27.
36 Eph. v. 16.
37 1 Thess. v. 5.
38 1 Cor. xv. 58.
39 Eph. vi. 16.
40 1 John iii. 16.
41 1 John iv. 18.
42 Aeneid, xii. 646.
43 Ex. xxxii. 32.
44 John x. 12.
45 Luke viii. 18.
46 Zech. xiii. 7.
47 Rom. viii. 32; Gal. iii. 13.
48 Isa. liii. 7.
49 Ps. xxiv. 7.
50 Acts. viii. 20.
51 Matt. v. 3.
52 Acts iv. 34, 35.
53 Stephanas is perhaps intended. - Tr.
54 Acts. xxiv. 26.
55 Matt. xxii. 21.
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56 Matt. v. 42.
57 Luke xvi. 9.
58 Matt. xix. 12.
59 1 John iv. 18.
60 Matt. xxii. 14.
61 See what Gibbon can say to minimize the matter (in cap. xvi. 4, vol. ii. p. 45, New York).
62 Cap. xiii.
63 I. cap. iii.
64 pp. 46, 138.
65 In his disgraceful chap. xvi.
1 [Elucidation.]
1 These two lines, if this be their true sense, seem to refer to Lot's wife. But the grammar and meaning of this introduction are alike obscure.
2 "Metus;" used, as in other places, of godly fear.
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3 Lit. "from," i.e., which, urged by a heart which is that of a saint, even though on this occasion it failed, the prophet dared.
4 Libratur.
5 "Tarshish," Eng. ver.; perhaps Tartessus in Spain. For this question, and the "trustiness" of Joppa (now Jaffa) as a port, see Pusey on Jonah i. 3.
6 Ejusdem per signa Dei.
7 i.e., the cloud.
8 Genitus (Oehler); geminus (Migne) = "twin clamour," which is not inapt.
9 Mandare (Oehler). If this be the true reading, the rendering in the text seems to represent the meaning; for "mandare" with an accusative, in the sense of "to bid the tardy coils tighten the girth's noose," seems almost too gross a solecism for even so lax a Latinist as our present writer. Migne, however, reads mundare-to "clear" the tardy coils, i.e., probably from the wash and weed with which the gale was cloying them.
10 Tunc Domini vates ingesta Spiritus infit. Of course it is a gross offence against quantity to make a genitive in "us" short, as the rendering in the text does. But a writer who makes the first syllable in "clamor" and the last syllable of gerunds in do short, would scarcely be likely to hesitate about taking similar liberties with a genitive of the so-called fourth declension. It is possible, it is true, to take "vates" and "Spiritus" as in apposition, and render, "Then the seer-Spirit of the Lord begins to utter words inspired," or "Then the seer-Spirit begins to utter the promptings of the Lord." But these renderings seem to accord less well with the ensuing words.
11 Mundi.
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12 i.e., apparently with shells which had gathered about him as he lay in the deep.
13 This seems to be the sense of Oehler's "Nauta at tum Domino leti venerando timorem Sacrificat grates"-"grates" being in apposition with "timorem." But Migne reads: "Nautaelig; tum Domino laeti venerando timorem Sacrificant grates:"-
"The sailors then do to the reverend Lord
Gladly make grateful sacrifice of fear:"and I do not see that Oehler's reading is much better.
14 Comp. Matt. xii. 38-41; Luke xi. 29,30.
15 These words are not in the original, but are inserted (I confess) to fill up the line, and avoid ending with an incomplete verse. If, however, any one is curious enough to compare the translation, with all its defects, with the Latin, he may be somewhat surprised to find how very little alteration or adaptation is necessary in turning verse into verse.
1 Maris aequor.
2 See Gen. ix. 21, 22, x. 8-17.
3 Comp. 2 Pet. iii. 5-14.
4 The expression, "sinners against their own souls," in Num. xvi. 38 - where, however, the LXX. have a very different version - may be compared with this; as likewise Prov. viii. 36.
5 Whether the above be the sense of this most obscure triplet I will not presume to determine. It is at least (I hope) intelligible sense. But that the reader may judge for himself whether he can offer any better, I sugjoin the lines, which form a sentence alone, and therefore can be judged of without their context: -"Tempore sed certo Deus omnia prospectulatus,Judicat injustos, patiens ubi criminis aetasCessandi spatium vis nulla coëgerit irae."
6 Comp. Heb. i. 14. It may be as well here to inform the reader once for that prosody as well as syntax is repeatedly set at defiance in these metrical fragments; and hence, of course, arise some of the chief difficulties in dealing with them.
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7 "Divinos;" i.e., apparently "superhuman," as everything heavenly is.
8 Of hospitality - bread and salt, etc.
9 "Mensa;" but perhaps "mensae" may be suggested - "the sacred pledges of the board."
10 "Dispungit," which is the only verb in the sentence, and refers both to pia pignora and to amicos. I use "quit" in the sense in which we speak of "quitting a debtor," i.e., giving him his full due; but the two lines are very hard, and present (as in the case of those before quoted) a jumble of words without grammar; "pia pignora mensa Officiisque probis studio dispungit amicos;" which may be somewhat more literally rendered than in our text, thus: "he zealously discharges" (i.e., fulfils) "his sacred pledges" (i.e., the promised hospitality which he had offered them) "with (a generous) board, and discharges" (i.e., fulfils his obligations to) "his friends with honourable courtesies."
11 Altera = alterna. But the statement differs from Gen. xix. 4.
12 "Istam juventam," i.e., the two "juvenes" (ver. 31) within.
13 "Fas" = osion, morally right; distinct from "jus" or "licitum."
14 i.e., Lot's race or family, which had come from "Ur of the Chaldees." See Gen. xi. 26, 27, 28.
15 I use "preventing" in its now unusual sense of "anticipating the arrival of."
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16 Shgwr in the LXX., "Zoar" in Eng. ver.
17 "Simul exoritur sol." But both the LXX. and the Eng. ver. say the sun was risen when Lot entered the city.
18 So Oehler and Migne. But perhaps we may alter the pointing slightly, and read: -
"Down pours a novel shower, sulphur mixt
With blazing flames: the ether seethes: the air
Crackles with liquid exust."
19 The story of Phaëthon and his fate is told in Ov., Met., ii. 1-399, which may be compared with the present piece. His two sisters were transformed into white poplars, according to some; alders, according to others. See Virg., Aen., x. 190 sqq., Ec., vi. 62 sqq. His hal-brother (Cycnus or Cygnus) was turned into a swan: and the scene of these transformations is laid by Ovid on the banks of the Eridanus (the Po). But the fable is variously told; and it has been suggested that the groundwork of it is to be found rather in the still-standing of the sun recorded in Joshua.
20 i.e., as she had been before in the case of Eve. See Gen. iii. 1 sqq.
21 I have hazarded the bold conjecture - which I see others (Pamelius at all events) had hazarded before me - that "feritas" is used by our author as - "fertilitas." The word, of course, is very incorrectly formed etymologically; but etymology is not our author's forte apparently. It will also be seen that there is seemingly a gap at this point, or else some enormous mistake, in the mss. An attempt has been made (see Migne) to correct it, but not a very satisfactory one. For the common reading, which gives two lines,
"Occidit illa prior feritas, quam prospiciens Loth
Nullus arat frustra piceas fuligine glebas,"which are evidently entirely unconnected with one another, it is proposed to read,
"Occidit illa prior feritas, quam prospiciens Loth,
Deseruisse pii fertur commercia fratris.