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Introductory Note.

[865] Servitutis artem. “Artem” Oehler explains by “artificiose institutum.”

[866] We subjoin Oehler’s text of this obscure sentence: “Non in ista investigatione alicujus artificis intus et domini servitutis artem ostendimus elementorum certis ex operis” (for “operibis,” not unusual in Tertullian) “eorum quas facis potestatis?”

[867] Aut.

[868] De licentia passivitatis libertas approbetur.

[869] Meminerunt.

[870] Num non.

[871] Universa negotiatio mundialis.

Chapter VI.—The Changes of the Heavenly Bodies, Proof that They are Not Divine. Transition from the Physical to the Mythic Class of Gods.

[872] Felicitas.

[873] These are the moon’s monthly changes.

[874] Tertullian refers to the Magian method of watching eclipses, the ἐνοπτρομαντεία.

[875] Instead of “non valet,” there is the reading “non volet,” “God would not consent,” etc.

[876] Viderint igitur “Let them look to themselves,” “never mind them.”

[877] Alias.

[878] Ista.

[879] Sedenim.

[880] Mortalitas.

Chapter VII.—The Gods of the Mythic Class. The Poets a Very Poor Authority in Such Matters. Homer and the Mythic Poets. Why Irreligious.

[881] See above, c. i. [Note 19, p. 129.]

[882] See The Apology, especially cc. xxii. and xxiii.

[883] Pejerantes.

[884] Lancinatis.

[885] Repercutitus.

 

 

 

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