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[1647] Fetu.
[1648] Tertullian perhaps mentions this “demus” of Athens as the birthplace of Plato (Oehler).
[1650] Si et alia.
[1651] Tertullian wrote a work De Fato, which is lost. Fulgentius, p. 561, gives a quotation from it.
Chapter XXI.—As Free-Will Actuates an Individual So May His Character Change.
[1652] i.e., the carnal, the animal, and the spiritual. Comp. Adv. Valentin. xxv., and De Resur. Carnis, lv.
[1655] See Adv. Hermog. xiii.
[1656] See Adv. Valentin. xxix.
[1662] See our Anti-Marcion, ii. 5–7.
[1663] In his work against this man, entitled De Censu Animæ, not now extant.
Chapter XXII.—Recapitulation. Definition of the Soul.
[1664] Tertullian had shown that “the soul is the breath or afflatus of God,” in ch. iv. and xi. above. He demonstrated its “immortality” in ch. ii.–iv., vi., ix., xiv.; and he will repeat his proof hereafter, in ch. xxiv., xxxviii., xlv., li., liii., liv. Moreover, he illustrates the soul’s “corporeity” in ch. v.–viii.; its “endowment with form or figure,” in ch. ix.; its “simplicity in substance” in ch. x. and xi.; its “inherent intelligence,” in ch. xii.; its varied development, in ch. xiii.–xv. The soul’s “rationality,” “supremacy,” and “instinctive divination,” Tertullian treated of in his treatise De Censu Animæ against Hermogenes (as he has said in the text); but he has treated somewhat of the soul’s “rational nature” in the sixteenth chapter above; in the fourteenth and fifteenth chapters he referred to the soul’s “supremacy or hegemony;” whilst we have had a hint about its “divining faculty,” even in infants, in ch. xix. The propagation of souls from the one archetypal soul is the subject of the chapter before us, as well as of the five succeeding ones (La Cerda).
[1665] Nihil Deo appendimus.
[1666] Exorbitationis.
[1667] In his, now lost, treatise, De Censu Animæ.
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