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Introductory Note.

[255] Rom. xii. 15.

[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.”

[257] John xvi. 20. It is observable that Tertullian here translates κόσμον by “seculum.”

[258] i.e., Lazarus,Luke xvi. 19-31.

[259] “Apud inferos,” used clearly here by Tertullian of a place of happiness. Augustine says he never finds it so used in Scripture. See Ussher’s “Answer to a Jesuit” on the Article, “He descended into hell.” [See Elucid. X. p. 59, supra.]

[260] i.e., if you are unknown to be a Christian: “dissimulaberis.” This is Oehler’s reading; but Latinius and Fr. Junis would read “Dissimulaveris,” ="if you dissemble the fact” of being a Christian, which perhaps is better.

[261] So Mr. Dodgson renders very well.

[262] Matt. x. 33; Mark viii. 38; Luke ix. 26; 2 Tim. ii. 12.

Chapter XIV.—Of Blasphemy. One of St. Paul’s Sayings.

[263] Isa. lii. 5; Ezek. xxxvi. 20, 23. Cf. 2 Sam. xii. 14; Rom. ii. 24.

[264] [This play on the words is literally copied from the original—“quæ tunc me testatur Christianum, cum propter ea me detestatur.”]

[265] St. Paul. Gal. i. 10.

[266] 1 Cor. x. 32, 33.

[267] 1 Cor. ix. 22.

[268] 1 Cor. v. 10.

[269] i.e., by sinning (Oehler), for “the wages of sin is death.”

[270] There seems to be a play on the word “convivere” (whence “convivium,” etc.), as in Cic. de Sen. xiii.

[271] Isa. i. 14, etc.

[272] [This is noteworthy. In the earlier days sabbaths (Saturdays) were not unobserved, but, it was a concession pro tempore, to Hebrew Christians.]

[273] i.e., perhaps your own birthdays. [See cap. xvi. infra.] Oehler seems to think it means, “all other Christian festivals beside Sunday.”

[274] [“An Easter Day in every week.”—Keble.]

[275] i.e., a space of fifty days, see Deut. xvi. 10; and comp. Hooker, Ecc. Pol. iv. 13, 7, ed. Keble.

Chapter XV.—Concerning Festivals in Honour of Emperors, Victories, and the Like. Examples of the Three Children and Daniel.

 

 

 

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