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Introduction, by the American Editor.

[2655] Præscribatur.

[2656] Defendemus.

Chapter XXVI.—In the Attribute of Justice, Marcion’s God is Hopelessly Weak and Ungodlike. He Dislikes Evil, But Does Not Punish Its Perpetration.

[2657] Ut non defensurus. Defendo = vindico. See Oehler’s note for other instances.

[2658] Secundum.

[2659] Pronunciavit.

Chapter XXVII.—Dangerous Effects to Religion and Morality of the Doctrine of So Weak a God.

[2660] Obsequium subsignare.

[2661] Legitimus.

[2662] Propter disciplinam.

[2663] Plagiarii. The Plagiarius is the ἀνδραποδιστής or the ψυχαγωγός of Alex. Greek. This “man-stealing” profession was often accompanied with agreeable external accomplishments. Nempe ψυχαγωγοί, quia blandis et mellitis verbis servos alienos sollicitant, et ad se alliciunt. Clemens Alex. Strom. i. λύκοι ἅρπαγες προβάτων κωδίοις ἐγκεκρυμμένοι, ἀνδραποδιστοί τε καὶ ψυχαγωγοὶ εὐγλῶσσοι, κλέπτοντες μὲν ἀφανῶς, κ.τ.λ.—Desid. Herald. Animad. ad Arnobium, p. 101.

[2664] Comp. Apology, 38.

[2665] Absit, inquis, absit. [i.e., the throwing of a grain of incense into the censer, before the Emperor’s image or that of a heathen god.]

Chapter XXVIII.—This Perverse Doctrine Deprives Baptism of All Its Grace. If Marcion Be Right, the Sacrament Would Confer No Remission of Sins, No Regeneration, No Gift of the Spirit.

[2666] Sulphuratiorem gehennam.

[2667] Ita neminem.

[2668] Suffectura. A something whereon the Spirit may operate; so that the Spirit has a præfectura over the anima. [Kaye, p. 179.]

[2669] Resignatum. Tertullian here yields to his love of antithesis, and makes almost nonsense of signo and resigno. The latter verb has the meaning violate (in opposition to signo, in the phrase virgo signata, a pure unviolated virgin).

[2670] Apud se.

[2671] Apud se.

[2672] Exsortem salutis.

Chapter XXIX.—Marcion Forbids Marriage. Tertullian Eloquently Defends It as Holy, and Carefully Discriminates Between Marcion’s Doctrine and His Own Montanism.

[2673] Free from all matrimonial impurity.

[2674] Spadonibus. This word is more general in sense than eunuch, embracing such as are impotent both by nature and by castration, White and Riddle’s Lat. Dict. s.v.

[2675] Tertullian’s Montanism appears here.

 

 

 

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