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[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.
[8824] See Matt. vi. 8.
[8825] Matt. vii. 7; Luke xi. 9.
Chapter XI.—When Praying the Father, You are Not to Be Angry with a Brother.
[8826] Oehler divides these two chapters as above. The generally adopted division unites this sentence to the preceding chapter, and begins the new chapter with, “The memory of His precepts;” and perhaps this is the preferable division.
[8827] altare. [Heb. xiii. 10.]
[8829] Perhaps there may be an allusion to Phil. iv. 6, 7.
[8830] See chap. vii. above, and compare Matt. vi. 14, 15.
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