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Apologetic
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[552] Disciplina ejus illuxit.
[553] Damnatio invaluit.
[554] Æmula sibi.
[555] Divinitatem consecutæ.
[556] See above, c. ii. note.
[557] i.e., What is the value of such evidence?
[558] We have inserted this phrase as the sentence is strongly ironical.
[559] Deferre, an infinitive of purpose, of which construction of our author Oehler gives examples.
[560] Fructus.
[561] Si etiam sibi credat.
[562] Quidem.
[563] Talia factitare.
[564] We read “quo,” and not “quod,” because.
[565] Conversatio.
[566] This refers to a calumny which the heathen frequently spread about the Christians.
[567] Detrectem or simply “treat of,” “refer to,” like the simple verb “tractare.”
[568] The irony of all this passage is evident.
[569] Diversum opus.
[570] Subjiciuntur “are stealthily narrated.”
[571] Inducunt.
[572] It is difficult to see what this “tacent igitur” means without referring to the similar passage in The Apology (end of c. viii.), which supplies a link wanted in the context. “At all events,” says he, “they know this afterward, and yet submit to it, and allow it. They fear to be punished, while, if they proclaimed the truth, they would deserve universal approbation.” Tertullian here states what the enemies of the Christians used to allege against them. After discovering the alleged atrocities of their secret assemblies, they kept their knowledge forsooth to themselves, being afraid of the consequences of a disclosure, etc.
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