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^[8792] Or, “world,” sæculi. See Matt. xxiv. 3, especially in the Greek. By “praying for some protraction in the age,” Tertullian appears to refer to some who used to pray that the end might be deferred (Rigalt.).

^[8793] altari.

^[8794] Rev. vi. 10.

^[8795] So Dodgson aptly renders “dirigitur a.”

^[8796] [See Ad Nationes, p. 128, supra.]

Chapter VI.—The Fifth Clause.

^[8797] This is a slight mistake of Tertullian. The words referred to, “Seek ye first,” etc., do not occur till the end of the chapter in which the prayer is found, so that his pluperfect is out of place. [He must have been aware of this: he only gives logical order to the thought which existed in the divine mind. See note 10, p. 682.]

^[8798] Matt. vi. 33.

^[8799] John vi. 35.

^[8800] John vi. 33.

^[8801] Matt. xxvi. 26.

^[8802] Matt. vi. 32.

^[8803] Tertullian seems to refer to Matt. xv. 26; Mark vii. 27.

^[8804] Matt. vii. 9; Luke xi. 11.

^[8805] Luke xi. 5-9.

^[8806] Matt. 6.34; Luke 12.29 seem to be referred to; but the same remark applies as in note 10 on the preceding page.

^[8807] Luke xii. 16-20.

Chapter VII.—The Sixth Clause.

^[8808] In the former petition, “Give us this day our daily bread.”

^[8809] Such as “daily bread.”

^[8810] That is, if we are just to be fed and fattened by them in body, as a bull which is destined for sacrifice is, and then, like him, slain—handed over to death?

^[8811] Ex. xviii. 23, 32; xxxiii. 11.

^[8812] Matt. xviii. 21-35.

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