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[384] [Gibbon will have it that the De Corona was written while Tertullian was orthodox, but this reference to the Montanist notion of “New Prophecy” seems to justify the decision of critics against Gibbon, who, as Kaye suggests (p. 53) was anxious to make Christianity itself responsible for military insubordination and for offences against Imperial Law.]
[385] [Kaye (p. 231) notes this as a rare instance of classing Catechumens among “the Faithful.”]
[386] [This is said not absolutely but in contrast with extreme license; but it shows the Supremacy of Scripture. Compare De Monogam, cap. 4.]
[387] [Elucidation I., and see Bunsen’s Church and House Book, pp. 19–24.]
[388] [There is here an allusion to the Roman form of recognizing a lawful child. The father, taking up the new-born infant, gave him adoption into the family, and recognised him as a legitimate son and heir.]
[389] [Men and women, rich and poor.]
[390] i.e., of the Cross.
[391] Vulgate, Dan. xiii. 32. [See Apocrypha, Susanna 32.]
[392] [Observe it must (1.) be based on Apostolic grounds; (2.) must not be a novelty, but derived from a time “to which the memory of men runneth not contrary.”]
[393] [I slightly amend the translation to bring out the force of an objection to which our author gives a Montanistic reply.]
[396] [See luminous remarks in Kaye, pp. 371–373.]
[397] [This teacher, i.e., right reason, under the guidance of the Holy Ghost. He is here foisting in a plea for the “New Prophecy,” apparently, and this is one of the most decided instances in the treatise.]
[398] Kaye [p. 187,] has some valuable remarks on this testimony to the senses in Christian Philosophy, and compares Cicero, I. Tusc. cap. xx. or xlvi.]
[402] [Plays were regarded as pomps renounced in Baptism.]
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