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[660] Stipite crucis.
[661] Solo staticulo. The use of wood in the construction of an idol is mentioned afterward.
[662] Omne robur.
[663] Antemna. See our Anti-Marcion, p. 156. Ed. Edinburgh.
[664] De isto patibulo.
[665] Plasta.
[666] In primo.
[667] Statumini.
[668] Comp. The Apology, c. xii.: “Every image of a god has been first constructed on a cross and stake, and plastered with cement. The body of your god is first dedicated upon a gibbet.”
[669] Veneramini.
[670] Tropæum, for “tropæorum.” We have given the sense rather than the words of this awkward sentence.
[671] Suggestus.
Chapter XIII.—The Charge of Worshipping the Sun Met by a Retort.
[672] Comp. The Apology, c. xvi.
[673] Sunday.
[674] Saturday.
[675] Ex diebus.
[676] On the “Cœna pura,” see our Anti-Marcion, p. 386, note 4.
[677] See Lev. xxiv. 2; also 2 Chron. xiii. 11. Witsius (Ægyptiaca, ii. 16, 17) compares the Jewish with the Egyptian “ritus lucernarum.”
[678] Tertullian, in his tract de Jejun. xvi., speaks of the Jews praying (after the loss of their temple, and in their dispersion) in the open air, “per omne litus.”
Chapter XIV.—The Vile Calumny About Onocoetes Retorted on the Heathen by Tertullian.
[679] Comp. The Apology, c. xvi.
[680] In ista civitate, Rome.
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