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[409] [Compare De Idololatria, cap. xv., p. 70, supra.]
[412] [He seems to know no use for incense except for burials and for fumigation.]
[414] [Kaye (p. 362) defends our author against Barbeyrac’s animadversions, by the maxim, “put yourself in his place” i.e. among the abominations of Paganism.]
[417] [He plays on this word Sacramentum. Is the military sacrament to be added to the Lord’s?]
[419] [Vexillum. Such words as these prepared for the Labarum.]
[420] “Outside of the military service.” By substituting ex militia for the corresponding words extra militiam, as has been proposed by Rigaltius, the sentence acquires a meaning such that desertion from the army is suggested as one of the methods by which a soldier who has become a Christian may continue faithful to Jesus. But the words extra militiam are a genuine part of the text. There is no good ground, therefore, for the statement of Gibbon: “Tertullian (de Corona Militis, c. xi.) suggests to them the expedient of deserting; a counsel which, if it had been generally known, was not very proper to conciliate the favour of the emperors toward the Christian sect.”—Tr.
[421] “The faithful,” etc.; i.e., the kind of occupation which any one has cannot be pleaded by him as a reason for not doing all that Christ has enjoined upon His people.—Tr.
[422] [He was not yet quite a Montanist.]
[423] i.e., Ilia.
[426] [Such considerations may account for our author’s abandonment of what he says in the Apology; which compare in capp. xlii. and xxxix.]
[427] [Et apud barbaros enim Christus. See Kaye’s argument, p. 87.]
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