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[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.
[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.
[277] See chap. ix. p. 152, note 4.
[278] Matt. xxii. 21; Mark xii. 17; Luke xx. 25.
[279] See Gen. i. 26-27; ix. 6; and comp. 1 Cor. xi. 7.
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