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[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.
[681] This is explained in the passage of The Apology (xvi.): “He had for money exposed himself with criminals to fight with wild beasts.”
[682] Decutiendus, from a jocular word, “decutire.”
[683] This curious word is compounded of ὅνος, an ass, and κοιᾶσθαι, which Hesychius explains by ἰερᾶσθαι, to act as a priest. The word therefore means, “asinarius sacerdos,” “an ass of a priest.” Calumnious enough; but suited to the vile occasion, and illustrative of the ribald opposition which Christianity had to encounter.
[684] We take Rigaltius’ reading, “seminarium.”
[685] Tanquam hesternum.
Chapter XV.—The Charge of Infanticide Retorted on the Heathen.
[686] Comp. The Apology, c. ix.
[687] Sacri.
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