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[8803] Tertullian seems to refer to Matt. xv. 26; Mark vii. 27.
[8804] Matt. vii. 9; Luke xi. 11.
[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.
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.
Chapter VIII.—The Seventh or Final Clause.
[8816] See James i. 13.
[8817] Implied in the one hypothesis—ignorance.
[8818] Implied in the other—wishing to overthrow faith.
[8819] i.e. no children even. The reference is apparently to Matt. 10.37; Luke 14.26, with which may be compared Deut. 13.6-10; 33.9. If Oehler’s reading, which I have followed, be correct, the precept, which is not verbally given till ages after Abraham, is made to have a retrospective force on him.
[8820] See Matt. iv. 10; Luke iv. 8.
[8821] Luke xxii. 40; Matt. xxvi. 41; Mark xiv. 31.
[8822] Routh refers us to De Bapt. c. 20, where Tertullian refers to the same event. [Note also his reference to De Fuga, cap. ii.]
[8823] Here comes in the Codex Ambrosianus, with the title, “Here begins a treatise of Tertullian of divers necessary things;” and from it are taken the headings of the remaining chapters. (See Oehler and Routh.)
Chapter X.—We May Superadd Prayers of Our Own to the Lord’s Prayer.
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