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Introductory Note.

[1116] Orbis.

[1117] Lex Cornelia transgressi fœderis ammissum novis exemplis novi coitus sacrilegum damnaret. After consulting Dr. Holmes, I have rendered, but not without hesitation, as above. “Fœdus” seems to have been technically used, especially in later Latin, of the marriage compact; but what “lex Cornelia” is meant I have sought vainly to discover, and whether “lex Cornelia transgressi fœderis” ought not to go together I am not sure. For “ammissum” (=admissum) Migne’s ed. reads “amissum,” a very different word. For “sacrilegus” with a genitive, see de Res. Carn, c. xlii. med.

[1118] Quid putatur (Oehler) putatus (Migne).

[1119] Or, “feeling”—“sensu.”

[1120] The Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux.

[1121] Perhaps Ægipana (marginal reading of the ms. as given in Oehler and Migne).

[1122] i.e., Bacchus.

[1123] Oehler reads “vide etem;” but Migne’s “viventem” seems better: indeed, Oehler’s is probably a misprint. The punctuation of this treatise in Oehler is very faulty throughout, and has been disregarded.

[1124] “Immensum,” rendered “incomprehensible” in the “Athanasian Creed.

Elucidation.

[1125] See page 14, supra.

VII. An Answer to the Jews.

[1126] [This treatise was written while our author was a Catholic. This seems to me the best supported of the theories concerning it. Let us accept Pamelius, for once and date it a.d. 198. Dr. Allix following Baronius, will have it as late as a.d. 208. Neander thinks the work, after the quotation from Isaiah in the beginning of chapter ninth, is not our author’s, but was finished by another hand, clumsily annexing what is said on the same chapter of Isaiah in the Third Book against Marcion. It is only slightly varied. Bp. Kaye admits the very striking facts instanced by Neander, in support of this theory, but demolishes, with a word any argument drawn from thence that the genuine work was written after the author’s lapse. This treatise is sufficiently annotated by Thelwall, and covers ground elsewhere gone over in this Series. My own notes are therefore very few.]

Chapter I.—Occasion of Writing. Relative Position of Jews and Gentiles Illustrated.

[1127] Comp. Phil. iii. 5.

[1128] See Isa. xl. 15: “dust of the balance,” Eng. Ver.; ῥοπὴ ζυγοῦ LXX. For the expression “dust out of a threshing-floor,” however, see Ps. i. 4, Dan. ii. 35.

[1129] See Gen. xxii. 18; and comp. Gal. iii. 16, and the reference in both places.

[1130] This promise may be said to have been given “to Abraham,” because (of course) he was still living at the time; as we see by comparing Gen. 21.5; 25.7,26; Heb. 11.9.

[1131] Or, “nor did He make, by grace, a distinction.”

[1132] Or, “nor did He make, by grace, a distinction.”

[1133] See Gen. xxv. 21-23, especially in the LXX.; and comp.Rom. ix. 10-13.

[1134] Sæculi.

[1135] Ex. xxxii. 1, 23; Acts vii. 39-40.

[1136] Ex. xxxii. 4: comp. Acts vii. 38-41; 1 Cor. x. 7; Ps. cvi. 19-22.

 

 

 

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