151 Adjuverit.

152 Repraesentaverit.

153 Restauraverit virtutes ejus.

154 Sententias reformaverit.

155 Luke iii. 1 and iv. 31.

156 Utique.

157 Ecquid ordinis.See above, book i. chap. xxiii. [Comp. i. cap. xix.]

158 This is here the force of viderit, our author's very favourite idiom.

159 Apparere.

160 Sapit.

161 Impegerit.

162 Descendisse autem, dum fit, videtur et subit oculos. Probably this bit of characteristic Latinity had better be rendered thus; "The accomplishment of a descent, however, is, whilst happening, a visible process, and one that meets the eye." Of the various readings, "dum sit," "dum it," "dum fit," we take the last with Oehler, only understanding the clause as a parenthesis.

163 Suggestu.

164 Indignum.

165 Cui.

166 Ingressuro praedictationem.

167 This is the literal rendering of Tertullian's version of the prophet's words, which occur chap. ix. 1, 2. The first clause closely follows the LXX. (ed. Tisch.): Tou=to prw=ton pi/e, taxu/ poi/ei. This curious passage is explained by Grotius (on Matt. iv. 14) as a mistake of ancient copyists; as if what the Seventy had originally rendered taxu\ poi/ei, from the hiphil of l@l@q

, had been faultily written taxu\ pi/e, and the latter had crept into the text with the marginal note prw=ton, instead of a repetition of taxu\. However this be, Tertullian's old Latin Bible had the passage thus: "Hoc primum bibito, cito facito, regio Zabulon," etc.

168 Si utique.

169 Agnoscere.

170 Matt. v. 17.

171 Additum.

172 Matt. xv. 24.

173 Matt. xv. 26.

174 Praefert.

175 Tam repentinus.

176 Etsi passim adiretur.

177 Luke iv. 32.

178 Eloquium.

179 Facilius.

180 That is, the Creator.

181 Luke iv. 33, 34.

182 Si non Creatoris.

183 See above, in book iii. chap. xii., on the name Emmanuel; in chap. xv., on the name Christ; and in chap. xvi., on the name Jesus.

184 Quid tale ediderit.

185 Ps. xvi. 10, and probably Dan. ix. 24.

186 Compare what was said above in book iii., chap. xvi. p. 335.

187 Exceperat.

188 Such is our author's reading of Luke i. 35.

189 Matt. i. 21.

190 Saevi.

191 Optimi.

192 Praemisimus.

193 De candida salutis: see Luke x. 20.

194 Aut cur.

195 Quidem.

196 Verisimiliorem statum.

197 Habebat.

198 Ipso nomine, or by His very name.

199 Nazaraeos; or, Nazarites. [Christians were still so called by the Jews in the Third Century. Kaye, 446.]

200 Lam. iv. 7.

201 Descendit apud, see Luke iv. 16-30.

202 Emancipata.

203 Luke iv. 23.

204 Luke iv. 29.

205 Luke iv. 24.

206 A rebuke of Marcion's Docetic views of Christ.

207 Scilicet.

208 Per caliginem.

209 "For nothing can touch and be touched but a bodily substance." This line from Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, i. 305, is again quoted by Tertullian in his De Anima, chap. v. (Oehler).

210 Luke iv. 40.

211 See Isa. liii. 4.

212 Interim.

213 Luke iv. 41.

214 Proinde enim.

215 Illius erat.

216 Porro.

217 Propriae non habebat.

218 Prae timore.

219 See above, book i. chap. vii. xxvi. and xxvii.

220 Materiae

221 Cedebant.

222 Aut nunquid.

223 Necessitatem.

224 In aliam notam.

225 Luke iv. 42.

226 Sermonem. [Nota Bene, Acts vii. 38.]

227 Habitus loci.

228 The law was given in the wilderness of Sinai; see Ex. xix. 1.

229 Isa. xxv. 1.

230 Luke iv. 42, 43.

231 Argumentum processurum erat.

232 See Luke v. 1-11.

233 Jer. xvi. 16.

234 Attentius argumentatur.

235 Apud illum, i.e., the Creator.

236 Luke v. 12-14.

237 1 Cor. v. 11.

238 Per carnalia, by material things.


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