| << | Contents | >> |
Anti-Marcion
Show All Footnotes & Jump to 3465
Introduction, by the American Editor.
[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.
[3466] Apud.
[3470] In allusion to the dove as the symbol of the Spirit, see Matt. iii. 16.
[3474] Præjudicium.
[3475] Præconium.
Search Comments
This page has been visited 0697 times.
| << | Contents | >> |
10 per page