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Anti-Marcion
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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[1846] “From Marlboro’s eyes the tears of dotage flow,
And Swift expires a driveller and a show.”
[1847] See the story of the Abbé Paris, Guettée, Histoire de L’Eglise de France, Tom. xii. p. 12. Also, Parton, Voltaire, Vol. I. pp. 236, 261, etc.
[1848] See opp. Tom. viii. p. 46, Ed. Migne.
[1849] Take e.g. the heading to chapter xxiv. of the De Præscriptione. It reads thus: “St. Peter’s further vindication. St. Paul was not at all superior to St. Peter in teaching. Nothing was imparted to the former, in the “third heaven,” to enable him to add to the faith—however foolishly the heretics may boast of him as if they had, forsooth, been favoured with some of the secrets so imparted to him in paradise.” If the reader will turn to the chapter referred to, he will observe an instance of condensation by which nothing is forfeited that is requisite to a heading, though redundancies are dropped.
I. The Prescription Against Heretics.
[1850] Of the various forms of the title of this treatise, de Præscriptione Hæreticorum, de Præscriptionibus Hæreticorum, de Præscriptionibus adversus Hæreticos, the first is adopted by Oehler after the oldest authorities, such as the Liber Argobardinus and the Codex Paterniacensis (or Seletstadiensis), and the Editio Princeps of Rhenanus. The term præscriptio is a legal one, meaning a demurrer, or formal objection. The genitive hæreticorum is used in an objective sense, as if adversus hæreticos. Tertullian himself, in de Carne Christi, ii. says, “Sed plenius ejusmodi præscriptionibus adversus omnes hæreses alibi jam usi sumus.” The title therefore means, “On the Church’s Prescriptive Rule against Heresies of all kinds.” [Elucidation I.]
Chapter I.—Introductory. Heresies Must Exist, and Even Abound; They are a Probation to Faith.
[1851] Istas.
[1852] Matt. vii. 15; xxiv. 4, 11, 24; 1 Tim. iv. 1-3; 2 Pet. ii. 1.
[1854] Plerique, “the majority.”
[1855] The Holy Ghost having foretold that they should exist. (Rigalt.)
[1856] Denique has in Tertullian sometimes the meaning of proinde.
[1857] Causam “purpose,” “final cause.”
[1858] Usitatissimi, “most experienced.”
[1859] Demutare.
[1864] Heb. iv. 15. [See p. 221, supra.]
[1865] [Here the word martyr means no more than a witness or confessor, and may account for what are called exaggerated statements as to the number of primitive martyrs. See Kaye p. 128.]
[1866] Obtinere.
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