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Introduction, by the American Editor.

[6744] Hac dispositione.

Chapter XII.—The Strange Jumble of the Pleroma. The Frantic Delight of the Members Thereof. Their Joint Contribution of Parts Set Forth with Humorous Irony.

[6745] Nemo aliud quia alteri omnes.

[6746] Refunduntur.

[6747] The reader will, of course, see that we give a familiar English plural to these names, as better expressing Tertullian’s irony.

[6748] Concinunt.

[6749] Diffundebatur.

[6750] Nauclerus: “pilot.”

[6751] Tertullian lived in a seaport at Carthage.

[6752] Nedum.

[6753] Christ and the Holy Spirit, [i.e. blasphemously.]

[6754] Symbolæ ratio.

[6755] Ratio.

[6756] Ex ære collaticio. In reference to the common symbola, Tertullian adds the proverbial formula, “quod aiunt” (as they say).

[6757] Compingunt.

[6758] Cognominant.

[6759] De patritus. Irenæus’ word here is πατρωνυμικῶς (“patronymice”).

[6760] Ex omnium defloratione.

[6761] Patina.

[6762] Alluding to the olive-branch, ornamented with all sorts of fruits (compare our “Christmas tree”), which was carried about by boys in Athens on a certain festival (White and Riddle).

Chapter XIII.—First Part of the Subject, Touching the Constitution of the Pleroma, Briefly Recapitulated. Transition to the Other Part, Which is Like a Play Outside the Curtain.

[6763] Comparaticium antistatum. The latter word Oehler explains, “ante ipsum stantes;” the former, “quia genus eorum comparari poterat substantiæ Soteris” (so Rigaltus).

[6764] The reader will see how obviously this is meant in Tertullian’s “Quod superest, inquis, vos valete et plaudite.” This is the well-known allusion to the end of the play in the old Roman theatre. See Quintilian, vi. 1, 52; comp. Horace, A. P. 155. Tertullian’s own parody to this formula, immediately after, is: “Immo quod superest, inquam, vos audite et proficite.

 

 

 

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