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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[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).
[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.
[6765] In libero: which may be, however, “beyond the control of Horos.”
[6766] Ininterpretabili.
[6767] Tertullian’s “Dum ita rerum habet” is a copy of the Greek οὕτω τῶν πραγμάτων ἔχουσο.
[6768] Deflectitur a.
[6769] Casus sui.
[6770] Rerum ex liberalitatibus.
[6771] De actia fuit. [See Vol. I. pp. 320, 321.]
[6772] It is not necessary, with Rigaltius, to make a difficulty about this, when we remember that Tertullian only refers to a silly conceit of the Valentinians touching the origin of the sacred name.
[6773] Or does “nec habens supervolare crucem” mean “being unable to elude the cross?” As if Tertullian meant, in his raillery, to say, that Achamoth had not the skill of the player who played the part of Laureolus. Although so often suspended on the gibbet, he had of course as often escaped the real penalty.
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