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[236] i.e., from one possessed.
[237] i.e., The demon, in gratitude for the incense which the man daily feeds him with, ought to depart out of the possessed at his request.
Chapter XII.—Further Answers to the Plea, How Am I to Live?
[238] i.e., in baptism.
[239] See above, chaps. v. and viii. [One is reminded here of the famous pleasantry of Dr. Johnson; see Boswell.]
[240] See Luke xiv. 28-30.
[242] Matt. 6.25,31; Luke 12.22-24.
[243] Matt. vi. 28; Luke xii. 28.
[244] Matt. xix. 21; Luke xviii. 22.
[245] Luke ix. 62, where the words are, “is fit for the kingdom of God.”
[246] Matt. vi. 24; Luke xvi. 13.
[247] Matt. xvi. 24; Mark viii. 34; Luke ix. 23; xiv. 27.
[248] Luke xiv. 26; Mark x. 29-30; Matt. xix. 27-30. Compare these texts with Tertullian’s words, and see the testimony he thus gives to the deity of Christ.
[249] i.e., any dear relations.
[250] Matt. iv. 21-22; Mark i. 19-20; Luke v. 10-11.
[251] Matt. ix. 9; Mark ii. 14; Luke v. 29.
[253] Matt. xix. 26; Luke i. 37; xviii. 27.
Chapter XIII.—Of the Observance of Days Connected with Idolatry.
[254] The treatise De Spectaculis [soon to follow, in this volume.]
[256] See 2 Cor. vi. 14. In the De Spect. xxvi. Tertullian has the same quotation (Oehler). And there, too, he adds, as here, “between life and death.”
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