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[8733] i.e. in baptism.
[8734] Sæcularibus.
[8735] See beginning of chapter, [where Luke vi. 30, is shown to be abused].
[8736] Virginibus; but he is speaking about men as well as women. Comp. de Orat. c. xxii. [I need not point out the bearings of the above chapter, nor do I desire to interpose any comments. The Editor’s interpolations, where purely gratuitous, I have even stricken out, though I agree with them. See that work of genius, the Liberty of Prophesying, by Jer. Taylor, sect. xviii. and its candid admissions.]
Chapter XIX.—Of the Times Most Suitable for Baptism.
[8737] Mark xiv. 13; Luke xxii. 10, “a small earthen pitcher of water.”
[8738] [He means the whole fifty days from the Paschal Feast till Pentecost, including the latter. Bunsen Hippol. III. 18.]
[8739] Lavacris.
[8740] Frequentata, i.e. by His frequent appearance. See Acts i. 3, δι᾽ ἡμερῶν τεσσαράκοντα ὀπτανόμενος αὐτοῖς.
[8741] Comp. Acts 1.10; Luke 9.30: in each place St. Luke says, ἄνδρες δύο: as also in Luke 24.4 of his Gospel.
[8742] Acts i. 10, 11; but it is οὐρανόν throughout in the Greek.
[8743] Jer. xxxi. 8, xxxviii. 8 in LXX., where ἐν ἑορτῇ φασέκ is found, which is not in the English version.
Chapter XX.—Of Preparation For, and Conduct After, the Reception of Baptism.
[8744] Matt. iii. 6. [See the collection of Dr. Bunsen for the whole primitive discipline to which Tertullian has reference, Hippol. Vol. III. pp. 5–23, and 29.]
[8745] Perhaps Tertullian is referring to Prov. xxviii. 13. If we confess now, we shall be forgiven, and not put to shame at the judgment day.
[8746] See de Orat. c. xxiii. ad fin., and the note there.
[8748] What passage is referred to is doubtful. The editors point us to Luke xxii. 28, 29; but the reference is unsatisfactory.
[8749] Lavacrum.
[8750] Lavacro. Compare the beginning of the chapter.
[8751] Viz. by their murmuring for bread (see Ex. xvi. 3, 7); and again—nearly forty years after—in another place. See Num. xxi. 5.
[8752] Aquam: just as St. Paul says the Israelites had been “baptized” (or “baptized themselves”) “into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.” 1 Cor. x. 2.
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