Novatian

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Introductory Notice to Novatian, a Roman Presbyter.

^[5310] [The divers animals are also parables illustrating human passions and appetites. See Jones of Nayland, vol. xi. p. 1.]

^[5311] Rom. vii. 14.

^[5312] This sentence is very unintelligible, but it is the nearest approach to a meaning that can be gathered from the original.

^[5313] [Gen. ix. 3. The Noachic covenant was Catholic, and foreshadowed Acts x. 15, although clean and unclean beasts were recognised as by natural classification. Gen. vii. 2. Argue as in Gal. iii. 17.]

^[5314] Or, as some read, “for eating,” substituting “esum” for “usum.”

^[5315] Gen. i. 31.

Chapter III. Argument.—And Thus Unclean Animals are Not to Be Reproached, Lest the Reproach Be Thrown Upon Their Author; But When an Irrational Animal is Rejected on Any Account, It is Rather that that Very Thing Should Be Condemned in Man Who is Rational; And Therefore that in Animals the Character, the Doings, and the Wills of Men are Depicted.

^[5316] [See chap. ii. p. 645, supra, note 9.]

^[5317] Sui culpa.

^[5318] [The moral uses of the animal creation are recognised in all languages; as when we say of men, a serpent, a fox, a hog, an ass, etc.; so otherwise, a lion, a lamb, an eagle, a dove, etc.]

^[5319] [Novatian was a keen analyst, and his allegorial renderings are logical generally, though sometimes fanciful.]

^[5320] Lev. xi. 4. [Jones of Nayland, vol. iii., Disquisition, ed. 1801.]

^[5321] “Enervem,” but more probably “informem.”

Chapter V. Argument.—But There Was a Limit to the Use of These Shadows or Figures; For Afterwards, When the End of the Law, Christ, Came, All Things Were Said by the Apostle to Be Pure to the Pure, and the True and Holy Meat Was a Right Faith and an Unspotted Conscience.

^[5322] Tit. i. 15.

^[5323] 1 Tim. iv. 4, 5.

^[5324] 1 Tim. iv. 1, 2, 3.

^[5325] 1 Cor. x. 25.

^[5326] Rom. xiv. 17.

^[5327] 1 Cor. vi. 13.

^[5328] [Or lower bowel, Mark vii. 19; Matt. xv. 17. See cap. i. note 7, p. 645, supra. It throws off refuse, leaving food only to the system.]

^[5329] Deut. viii. 3.

^[5330] John iv. 34.

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