257 Implied in the emphatic tu.

258 Sine u lo lenocinio pronunciationis.

259 Prima positio: the first inflection perhaps, i.e. the present tense.

260 Declinatio: the past tense.

261 Caput.

262 Scilicet.

263 This seems to be the meaning of the obscure passage, "Ut ejusdem sit Erat cujus et quod erat."

264 Habitum.

265 Deo subjacebat.

266 See below, ch. xxx. p. 494.

267 Matter.

268 "Compertus est" is here a deponent verb.

269 Minus factum.

270 Rudimento. Tertullian uses the word "rudis" (unformed) for the scriptural term ("void"); of this word "rudimentum" is the abstract.

271 Depalans.

272 Dedicans: "disposed" them.

273 Solatio lunae: a beautiful expression!

274 Significavit.

275 Belluis.

276 In vacuum: void.

277 Isa. xlv. 18.

278 Futura etiam perfecta.

279 De reliquo nondum instructa.

280 Genitalis humoris.

281 Canit: "sing," as the Psalmist.

282 Ps. xxiv. 1.

283 Emicantior.

284 "Visibilis" is here the opposite of the term "invisibilis," which Tertullian uses for the Scripture phrase "without form."

285 In congregatione una.

286 Gen. i. 9.

287 Sustinebat: i.e. expectabat (Oehler).

288 Gen. i. 10.

289 Ver. 11.

290 Ver. 24.

291 Volo.

292 He means, of course, the theoretic "Matter" of Hermogenes.

293 Isa. xlv. 18.

294 Demonstravit: "make it visible." Tertullian here all along makes form and visibility synonymous

295 Gen. i. 9.

296 Ostensam: "manifested" (see note 10, p. 96.)

297 Cum caelo separavit: Gen. i. 1.

298 Gen. i. 2.

299 Confusae.

300 Massalis illus molis.

301 Situs.

302 Dispositionem.

303 Tot formarum vocabulis.

304 Corpus confusionis.

305 Unicum.

306 Informe.

307 Autem.

308 Confusum.

309 Ex varietate.

310 Unam speciem.

311 Unam ex multis speciem.

312 Istas species.

313 Non habens formas.

314 Agnoscitur.

315 Ista: the earth, which has been the subject of contention.

316 Speciecus.

317 Scrupulo: doubt of difficulity.

318 Suggestus: "Hoc est, apparatus, ornatus" (Oehler).

319 It will be observed that Tertullian applies the spiritus to the wind as a creature.

320 Qua summale.

321 Qua portionale.

322 Scena.

323 Has species.

324 Gen. ii. 7.

325 Both in the quotation and here, Tertullian read "faciem" where we read "nostrils."

326 Cutem: another reading has "costam," rib.

327 See Gen. ii. 21, 23, iii. 5, 19, iv. 10.

328 Quatenus hic commendare videtur.

329 Dissimulato tacito intellectu.

330 Prov. viii. 24.

331 Subjecta.

332 Isa. xlv. 7.

333 De spiritu. This shows that Tertullian took the spirit of Gen. i. 2 in the inferior sense.

334 So also the Septuagint.

335 So also the Septuagint.

336 Amos iv. 13.

337 The "wind."

338 John iv. 24.

339 Flatum: "breath;" so LXX. of Isa. lvii. 16.

340 Fonter, quae.


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