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Introduction, by the American Editor.

[2616] Therefore Christians used to lift their hands and arms towards heaven in prayer. Compare The Apology, chap. 30, (where the manibus expansis betokens the open hand, not merely as the heathen tendens ad sidera palmas). See also De Orat. c. 13, and other passages from different writers referred to in the “Tertullian” of the Oxford Library of the Fathers, p. 70. [See the figures in the Catacombs as represented by Parker, Marriott and others.]

[2617] To the same effect Irenæus had said: “How will it be consistent in them to hold that the bread on which thanks are given is the body of their Lord, and that the cup is His blood, if they do not acknowledge that He is the Son of the Creator of the world, that is, the Word of God?” (Rigalt.) [The consecrated bread is still bread, in Patristic theology.]

[2618] Operatur, a not unfrequent use of the word. Thus Prudentius (Psychom. 572) opposes operatio to avaritia.

Chapter XXIV.—The Goodness of Marcion’s God Only Imperfectly Manifested; It Saves But Few, and the Souls Merely of These. Marcion’s Contempt of the Body Absurd.

[2619] Matt. v. 48.

[2620] Traducetur.

[2621] Nec jam.

[2622] Immo.

[2623] Minor numero.

[2624] Non fiunt salvi. [Kaye, p. 347.]

[2625] Pauciores.

[2626] Partiaria exitii.

[2627] Non facit salvos.

[2628] Si forte (i.e., εἰ τύχοι εἴπερ ἄρα, with a touch of irony,— a frequent phrase in Tertullian.

[2629] Anima tenus. Comp.De Præscr. Hær. 33, where Marcion, as well as Apelles, Valentinus, and others, are charged with the Sadducean denial of the resurrection of the flesh, which is censured by St. Paul,1 Cor. xv. 12.

[2630] Compare De Præscr. Hær. 33, where Marcion and Apelles are brought under St. Paul’s reproach in 1 Tim. iv. 3.

[2631] Hactenus. [Kaye, p. 260.]

[2632] Animalis (from anima, the vital principle, “the breath of life”) is here opposed to corporalis.

[2633] הָאָרָם, homo, from הָאֲרַמָה, humus, the ground; see the Hebrew of Gen. ii. 7.

[2634] Febricitas.

[2635] Offensum, probably in respect of the Marcionite treatment of His attributes.

Chapter XXV.—God is Not a Being of Simple Goodness; Other Attributes Belong to Him. Marcion Shows Inconsistency in the Portraiture of His Simply Good and Emotionless God.

[2636] Ingenitam. In chap. xxii. this word seems to be synonymous with naturalem. Comp. book ii. 3, where it has this sense in the phrase “Deo ingenita.”

 

 

 

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