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Apologetic
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[479] Neque spatium commodetis.
[480] Quanquam confessis.
[481] Receptoribus, “concealers” of the crime.
[482] Porro.
[483] Elogia.
[484] Immo.
[485] We have for once departed from Oehler’s text, and preferred Rigault’s: “Perducerentur infantarii et coci, ipsi canes pronubi, emendata esset res.” The sense is evident from The Apology, c. vii.: “It is said that we are guilty of most horrible crimes; that in the celebration of our sacrament we put a child to death, which we afterward devour, and at the end of our banquet revel in incest; that we employ dogs as ministers of our impure delights, to overthrow the candles, and thus to provide darkness, and remove all shame which might interfere with these impious lusts” (Chevalier’s translation). These calumnies were very common, and are noticed by Justin Martyr, Minucius Felix, Eusebius, Athenagoras, and Origen, who attributes their origin to the Jews. Oehler reads infantariæ, after the Agobardine codex and editio princeps, and quotes Martial (Epigr. iv. 88), where the word occurs in the sense of an inordinate love of children.
[486] Nam et plerique fidem talium temperant.
Chapter III.—The Great Offence in the Christians Lies in Their Very Name. The Name Vindicated.
[487] Comp. The Apology, cc. i. and ii.
[488] Adeo si.
[489] Si accommodarent.
[490] Porro.
[491] Hæc ratio est.
[492] Reprobentur.
[493] Impunitate.
[494] i.e., the name “Christians.”
[495] By the “suo loco,” Tertullian refers to The Apology.
[496] Præscribitur vobis.
[497] Præsidi.
[498] Ego.
[499] Χρηστός means both “pleasant” and “good;” and the heathen founded this word with the sacred name Χριστός.
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