Anti-Marcion

Footnotes

^[5006] We have adapted, rather than translated, Tertullian’s words in this parenthesis. His words of course suit the order of the Latin, which differs from the English. The sentence in Latin is, “Quos autem dignatus est Deus illius ævi possessione et resurrectione a mortuis.” The phrase in question is illius ævi. Where shall it stand? The Marcionites placed it after “Deus” in government, but Tertullian (following the undoubted meaning of the sentence) says it depends on “possessione et resurrectione,” i.e., “worthy of the possession, etc., of that world.” To effect this construction, he says, “Ut facta hic distinctione post deum ad sequentia pertineat illius ævi;” i.e., he requests that a stop be placed after the word “deus,” whereby the phrase “illius ævi” will belong to the words which follow—“possessione et resurrectione a mortuis.”

^[5007] Luke xx. 33.

^[5008] Luke xx. 39.

^[5009] Formam: “its conditions” or “process.”

^[5010] Luke xx. 41-44.

^[5011] Non obtundebat.

^[5012] Luke xviii. 38.

^[5013] Luke xx. 41.

^[5014] Tueretur.

Chapter XXXIX.—Concerning Those Who Come in the Name of Christ. The Terrible Signs of His Coming. He Whose Coming is So Grandly Described Both in the Old Testament and the New Testament, is None Other Than the Christ of the Creator. This Proof Enhanced by the Parable of the Fig-Tree and All the Trees. Parallel Passages of Prophecy.

^[5015] See above: book iii. chap. xv. and xvi. pp. 333, 334.

^[5016] The illam here refers to the nominum proprietas, i.e., His title Christ and His name Jesus.

^[5017] Transnominaret.