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[8462] “Timent,” not “metuunt.” “Metus” is the word Tertullian has been using above for religious, reverential fear.
[8463] Timor.
[8465] i.e., by baptism.
[8466] Adulantur.
[8467] “Commeatus,” a military word ="furlough,” hence “holiday-time.”
[8468] i.e., repurchase.
[8469] Adulter; see de Idol. c. i.
[8470] i.e., in baptism.
[8473] Symbolum mortis indulget. Comp. Rom. vi. 3-4, 8; Col. ii. 12, 20.
[8475] i.e., in baptism.
[8476] See John 13.10; Matt. 23.26.
[8477] Metus integer.
[8478] Metus.
[8479] Or, “disappoints,” i.e., the hasty recipient himself.
Chapter VII.—Of Repentance, in the Case of Such as Have Lapsed After Baptism.
[8480] i.e., before baptism.
[8481] [Elucidation I. See infra, this chapter, sub fine.]
[8482] [When our author wrote to the Martyrs, (see cap. 1.) he was less disposed to such remorseless discipline: and perhaps we have here an element of his subsequent system, one which led him to accept the discipline of Montanism. On this general subject, we shall find enough when we come to Cyprian and Novatian.]
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