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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[8324] It has been thought that the allusion is to the breaking of the legs of the crucified to hasten their death, not to the beating to which the apostles were subjected by the Jewish council: Acts v. 40.—Tr.
[8326] James the brother of our Lord, not the James mentioned Acts xii. 2.
[8329] Matt. 16.23; 4.10,—a mixing up of two passages of Scripture.
[8330] [On p. 14, this volume, see nearly all that need be said, of this spurious treatise. I add a few references to Routh, Opuscula, Vol. 1. p. 160 etc. His honouring it with a place in his work must be my apology for not relegating it to the collection of spurious Tertulliana, sub fine.]
[8331] [Routh says he inadvertently changed his title to read Advs. Hæreticos, but that it is better after all, in view of the opening sentence.]
[8332] See Acts xxiii. 8, and the references there.
[8333] Pharisees = Separatists.
[8334] See Acts viii. 9-24.
[8335] I use Virtue in this and similar cases in its Miltonic sense.
[8336] Mundum.
[8337] Or, “intelligence.”
[8338] Or, “but had undergone a quasi-passion.”
[8339] Magus.
[8340] Innascibilem;” but Fr. Junius’ conjecture, “innoscibilem,” is agreeable to the Greek “ἄγνωστος.”
[8341] Mundum.
[8342] The text here is partially conjectural, and if correct, clumsy. For the sense, see de Anima, c. xxiii. ad init.
[8343] Or, Abraxes, or Abrasax.
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