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Anti-Marcion
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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[2281] Miscent.
[2282] Edocti.
[2283] Repromittere.
[2284] Compare Tertullian’s tract, de Bapt. I. and de Veland. Virg. viii. [Also, Epiphan. iv. p. 453, Ed. Oehler.]
[2285] Temerariæ.
[2286] They were constantly changing their ministers. It was a saying of the heretics, “Alius hodie episcopus, cras alius” (Rigalt.).
[2287] Sæculo obstrictos.
[2288] Promereri est.
[2289] Non parent.
[2290] Enim. [e.g. The Trent system of Unity, alas! is of this sort.]
[2291] Hence the saying, “Wasps make combs, so Marcionites make churches” (see our Anti-Marcion, p. 187); describing the strangeness and uselessness of the societies, not (as Gibbon said) their number (Dodgson).
[2292] Sua in vilitate. Another reading, pronounced corrupt by Oehler, has “quasi sibi latæ vagantur,” q.d. “All for themselves, as it were, they wander” etc. (Dodgson).
[2293] Scilicet.
[2294] Ps. cxi. 10; Prov. i. 7.
[2295] Attonita, as if in fear that it might go wrong (Rigalt.).
[2296] In contrast to the opposite fault of the heresies exposed above.
[2297] Deliberata, where the character was well weighed previous to admission to the eucharist.
[2298] Apparitio, the duty and office of an apparitor, or attendant on men of higher rank, whether in church or state.
[2300] Scævis.
[2301] Futuris.
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