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Anti-Marcion
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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[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.
[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.
[2676] i.e., abstinence from marriage.
[2677] Sectando. [This, indeed, seems to be a fair statement of Patristic doctrine concerning marriage. As to our author’s variations see Kaye, p. 378.]
[2678] Universum conditionis.
[2679] Causa in its proper sense is, “that through which anything takes place;” its just and normal state, therefore. Culpa is the derangement of the cause; some flaw in it.
[2682] Lev. xx. 10, 13, 15.
[2683] Ratio.
[2684] In fide. Tertullian uses (De Pud. 18) “ante fidem” as synonymous with ante baptismum; similarly “post fidem.”
[2685] [Bad as this is, does it argue the lapse of our author as at this time complete?]
[2688] This is the force of the erit instead of the past tense.
[2689] Isses in, i.e., obstitisses, check or resist, for then Marcion would, of course, not have been born: the common text has esses in.
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