Anti-Marcion

Footnotes

^[7191] As we have often observed, the term Spiritus is used by Tertullian to express the Divine Nature in Christ. Anti-Marcion, p. 375, note 13.

^[7192] Dispositio rationis.

^[7193] Proferendum.

^[7194] John i. 14.

^[7195] Nec periclitatus quasi.

^[7196] Literally, “in which it became flesh.”

^[7197] John iii. 6.

^[7198] John iii. 6.

^[7199] [A very perspicuous statement of the Incarnation is set forth in this chapter.]

Chapter XIX.—Christ, as to His Divine Nature, as the Word of God, Became Flesh, Not by Carnal Conception, Nor by the Will of the Flesh and of Man, But by the Will of God. Christ’s Divine Nature, of Its Own Accord, Descended into the Virgin’s Womb.

^[7200] Tertullian reads this in the singular number, “natus est.”

^[7201] John i. 13.

^[7202] We need not say that the mass of critical authority is against Tertullian, and with his opponents, in their reading of this passage.

^[7203] He refers to the Valentinians. See our translation of this tract against them, chap. xxv., etc., p. 515, supra.

^[7204] Formalis nostræ nativitatis.

^[7205] Despumatione.

^[7206] Vis.

^[7207] Medicando. [This is based on Job x. 10, a favourite passage with the Fathers in expounding the generative process.]

^[7208] i.e., The Son of God.

^[7209] Which is all that the heretics assign to Him.

^[7210] Such as Valentinus ascribed to Him. See above, c. xv. p. 511.

Chapter XX.—Christ Born of a Virgin, of Her Substance. The Physiological Facts of His Real and Exact Birth of a Human Mother, as Suggested by Certain Passages of Scripture.

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