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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[4330] It was a primitive opinion in the Church that Elijah was to come, with Enoch, at the end of the world. See De Anima, chap. xxxv. and l.; also Irenæus, De Hæres. v. 5. [Vol. I. 530.]
[4332] This Tertullian seems to have done in his treatise De Ecstasi, which is mentioned by St. Jerome—see his Catalogus Scriptt. Eccles. (in Tertulliano); and by Nicephorus, Hist. Eccles. iv. 22, 34. On this subject of ecstasy, Tertullian has some observations in De Anima, chap. xxi. and xlv. (Rigalt. and Oehler.)
[4333] [Elucidation VII.]
[4334] Amentiam.
[4335] Excidat sensu.
[4336] He calls those the carnally-minded (“psychicos”) who thought that ecstatic raptures and revelations had ceased in the church. The term arises from a perverse application of 1 Cor. ii. 14: ψυχικὸς δὲ ἄνθρωπος οὐ δέχεται τὰ τοῦ Πνεύματος τοῦ Θεοῦ. In opposition to the wild fanaticism of Montanus, into which Tertullian strangely fell, the Catholics believed that the true prophets, who were filled with the Spirit of God, discharged their prophetic functions with a quiet and tranquil mind. See the anonymous author, Contra Cataphrygas, in Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. v. 17; Epiphanius, Hæres. 48. See also Routh, Rell. Sacræ, i. p. 100; and Bp. Kaye, On the Writings of Tertullian, edit. 3, pp. 27–36. (Munter’s Primord. Eccles. Afric. p. 138, quoted by Oehler.)
[4337] Amentiam.
[4338] Ceterum.
[4339] According to the hypothesis.
[4340] Totum ordinem, in the three periods represented by Moses, and Elijah, and Christ.
[4341] Compare Deut. 19.15; Luke 9.28.
[4342] Consignari.
[4343] In eo suggestu.
[4344] Conscriptum fuerat.
[4345] Marcion’s god.
[4346] Compare above, book i. chap. 15, and book iv. chap. 7.
[4347] Precario. This word is used in book v. chap. xii. to describe the transitoriness of the Creator’s paradise and world.
[4348] Nec nunc.
[4350] Isa. l. 10, according to the Septuagint.
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