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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[6063] Col. i. 15. Our author’s “primogenitus conditionis” is St. Paul’s πρωτότοκος πάσης κτίσεως, for the meaning of which see Bp. Ellicott, in loc.
[6065] Ante omnes.
[6066] Ante amina.
[6067] Creatoris is our author’s word.
[6069] Aut si.
[6070] Evangelizatores.
[6071] Ceterum quale.
[6073] “Una ipsa” is Oehler’s reading instead of universa.
[6074] Cujus novissime fuerant.
[6079] As if only in a metaphorical body, in which sense the Church is “His body.”
[6081] “Dominum inferens hebetem;” with which may be compared Cicero (De Divin. ii. 50, 103): “Videsne Epicurum quem hebetem et rudem dicere solent Stoici…qui negat, quidquam deos nec alieni curare, nec sui.” The otiose and inert character of the god of Epicurus is referred to by Tertullian not unfrequently; see above, in book iv. chap. xv.; Apolog. 47, and Ad Nationes, ii. 2; whilst in De Anima, 3, he characterizes the philosophy of Epicurus by a similar term: “Prout aut Platonis honor, aut Zenonis vigor, aut Aristotelis tenor, aut Epicuri stupor, aut Heracliti mæror, aut Empedoclis furor persuaserunt.”
[6082] The Stoical dogma of the eternity of matter and its equality with God was also held by Hermogenes; see his Adv. Hermogenem, c. 4, “Materiam parem Deo infert.”
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