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[582] Quanto constare.
[583] “An alii ordines dentium Christianorum, et alii specus faucium?” (literally, “Have Christians other sets of teeth, and other caverns of jaws?”) This seems to refer to voracious animals like the shark, whose terrible teeth, lying in several rows, and greediness to swallow anything, however incongruous, that comes in its way, are well-known facts in natural history.
[584] Positione.
[585] Compare The Apology, c. viii.
[586] Cynopæ. This class would furnish the unnatural “teeth,” and “jaws,” just referred to.
[587] Sciapodes with broad feet producing a large shade; suited for the “incestuous lust” above mentioned.
[588] Literally, “which come up from under ground.”
[589] Tertullian got this story from Herodotus, ii. 2.
[590] Ipsius animæ organo.
[591] Faucibus.
[592] Utpote linguatuli.
[593] This is one of the passages which incidentally show how widely spread was Christianity.
[594] De Superstitione.
[595] Comp. The Apology, cc. xl. xli. [And Augustine, Civ. Dei. iii.]
[596] By the “manceps erroris” he means the devil.
[597] Libitina.
[598] Christianorum meritum, which with “sit” may also, “Let the Christians have their due.” In The Apology the cry is, “Christianos ad leonem.”
[599] We insert this after Oehler. Tertullian’s words are, “Quasi modicum habeant aut aliud metuere qui Deum verum.”
[600] See above, c. vii.
[601] Sæculum digessit.
[602] Aliter vobis renuntiata.
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