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[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.
[8754] Lavacro.
[8755] In prayer: comp. de Orat. c. xiv.
[8756] i.e. the Church: comp. de Orat. c. 2.
[8758] Matt. vii. 7; Luke xi. 9; αἰτεῖτε, καὶ δοθήσεται, ὑμῖν in both places.
[8759] [The translator, though so learned and helpful, too often encumbers the text with superfluous interpolations. As many of these, while making the reading difficult, add nothing to the sense yet destroy the terse, crabbed force of the original, I have occasionally restored the spirit of a sentence, by removing them.]
Chapter I.—General Introduction.
[8760] [After the discipline of Repentance and of Baptism the Laws of Christian Living come into view. Hence this is the logical place for this treatise. See the Prolegomena of Muratori and learned annotations, in Routh, Opuscula I. p. 173, et sqq. We may date it circa a.d. 192. For much of the Primitive Discipline, concerning Prayer, see Bunsen, Hippol. III. pp. 88–91, etc.]
[8761] Oehler’s punctuation is followed here. The sentence is difficult, and has perplexed editors and commentators considerably.
[8762] Matt. ix. 16-17; Mark ii. 21-22; Luke v. 36-37.
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