Ethical

Footnotes

^[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.]

^[8483] Timor.

^[8484] “Mortis opera,” or “deadly works:” cf. de Idol. c. iv. (mid.), “perdition of blood,” and the note there.

^[8485] 1 Cor. vi. 3.

^[8486] Or, “has permitted somewhat still to stand open.”

^[8487] [See cap. vii. supra.]

^[8488] To accept the satisfaction.

Chapter VIII.—Examples from Scripture to Prove the Lord’s Willingness to Pardon.

^[8489] Evolve: perhaps simply ="read.”

^[8490] Rev. ii. 7, 11, 17, 29; iii. 6, 13, 21.

^[8491] Rev. ii. 4.

^[8492] Rev. ii. 20.

^[8493] Rev. iii. 2.