Novatian

Footnotes

Introductory Notice to Novatian, a Roman Presbyter.

^[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.

^[5331] John vi. 26, 27.

^[5332] Zech. vii. 6, LXX.

^[5333] “Attonitus” is assumed to be rightly read “attentus.”

^[5334] [1 Tim. iv. 4; vi. 17. Against the Encratites (vol. i. p. 353), but not against moderation (vol. ii. p. 237, this series).]

^[5335] Col. ii. 18, 19.

^[5336] Col. ii. 21, 23.

Chapter VI. Argument.—But, on the Ground that Liberty in Meats is Granted to Us, There is No Permission of Luxury, There is No Taking Away of Continence and Fasting: for These Things Greatly Become the Faithful,—To Wit, that They Should Pray to God, and Give Him Thanks, Not Only by Day, But by Night.

^[5337] 1 Tim. vi. 8.

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