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[346] See vol. II., p. 186, this series.
III. The Shows, or De Spectaculis.
[347] [It is the opinion of Dr. Neander that this treatise proceeded from our author before his lapse: but Bp. Kaye (p. xvi.) finds some exaggerated expressions in it, concerning the military life, which savour of Montanism. Probably they do, but had he written the tract as a professed Montanist, they would have been much less ambiguous, in all probability. At all events, a work so colourless that doctors can disagree about even its shading, must be regarded as practically orthodox. Exaggerated expressions are but the characteristics of the author’s genius. We find the like in all writers of strongly marked individuality. Neander dates this treatise circa a.d. 197. That it was written at Carthage is the conviction of Kaye and Dr. Allix; see Kaye, p. 55.]
[348] [He speaks of Catechumens, called elsewhere Novitioli. See Bunsen, Hippol. III. Church and House-book, p. 5.]
[349] [Here he addresses the Fideles or Communicants, as we call them.]
[350] [Kaye (p. 366), declares that all the arguments urged in this tract are comprised in two sentences of the Apology, cap. 38.]
[351] [For the demonology of this treatise, compare capp. 10, 12, 13, 23, and see Kaye’s full but condensed statement (pp. 201–204), in his account of the writings, etc.]
[353] Ps. i. 1. [Kaye’s censure of this use of the text, (p. 366) seems to me gratuitous.]
[354] [Neander argues with great force that in referring to Scripture and not at all to the “new Prophecy,” our author shows his orthodoxy. We may add “ that highest authority” to which he appeals in this chapter.]
[355] [Cybele.]
[356] [Very admirable reflections on this chapter may be found in Kaye, pp. 362–3.]
[357] [The authority of Tertullian, in this matter, is accepted by the critics, as of historic importance.]
[358] [Though this was probably written at Carthage, his reference to the Flavian theatre in this place is plain from the immediate comparison with the Capitol.]
[359] [To the infernal deities and first of all to Pluto. See vol. I. note 6, p. 131, this Series.]
[360] [Bunsen, Hippol. Vol. III. pp. 20–22.]
[363] Ps. xlix. 18. [This chapter bears on modern theatres.]
[364] [The ludi Atellani were so called from Atella, in Campania, where a vast amphitheatre delighted the inhabitants. Juvenal, Sat. vi. 71. The like disgrace our times.]
[365] [See Kaye, p. 11. This expression is thought to confirm the probability of Tertullian’s original Gentilism.]
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