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Anti-Marcion
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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[3445] [See Kaye’s important Comment. p. 345.]
[3448] Phil. iii. 20, “our conversation,” A.V.
[3449] Deputat.
[3452] That is, the Montanist. [Regarded as conclusive; but not conclusive evidence of an accomplished lapse from Catholic Communion.]
[3453] He means that of Severus against the Parthians. Tertullian is the only author who mentions this prodigy.
[3454] Evanescente.
[3455] Et alias de proximo nullam: or “de proximo” may mean, “on a near approach.”
[3456] Ratio.
[3457] Apud: or, “in the dispensation of the Creator.”
[3458] Dispositionis.
[3460] Nostri, i.e., Christians. [Not Montanist, but Catholic.]
[3463] Judæorum enim dispositio in Esau priorum natu et posteriorum affectu filiorum. This is the original of a difficult passage, in which Tertullian, who has taken Jacob as a type of the later, the Christian church, seems to make Esau the symbol of the former, the Jewish church, which, although prior in time, was later in allegiance to the full truth of God.
[3464] Temere, si forte, interpretabimur.
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