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[8904] i.e. by a veil.
[8905] i.e. says Oehler, “lest we postpone the eternal favour of God, which we hope for, to the temporal veneration of men; a risk which those virgins seemed likely to run who, when devoted to God, used to go veiled in public, but bareheaded in the church.”
[8906] i.e. in church.
[8907] i.e. in public; see note 27, supra.
[8909] i.e. as Muratori, quoted by Oehler, says, your “pious” (?) fraud in pretending to be married when you are a virgin; because “devoted” virgins used to dress and wear veils like married women, as being regarded as “wedded to Christ.”
[8910] i.e. each president of a church, or bishop.
[8911] i.e. “are known to be such through the chastity of their manner and life” (Oehler).
[8912] “By appearing in public as married women, while in heart they are virgins” (Oehler).
[8913] Does Tertullian refer to 2 Cor. x. 13? or does “modulus” mean, as Oehler thinks, “my rule?” [It seems to me a very plain reference to the text before mentioned, and to the Apostolic Canon of not exceeding one’s Mission.]
[8916] i.e. abstaining from kneeling: kneeling being more “a posture of solicitude” and of humility; standing, of “exultation.”
[8917] i.e. at fasts and Stations. [Sabbath = Saturday, supra.]
[8918] For the meaning of “satisfaction” as used by the Fathers, see Hooker, Eccl. Pol. vi. 5.
[8919] Eph. vi. 18; 1 Thess. v. 17; 1 Tim. ii. 8.
Chapter XXIV.—Of Place for Prayer.
[8920] Matt. vi. 5, 6, which forbids praying in public.
[8921] Paul and Silas (Acts xvi. 25).
[8922] I have followed Muratori’s reading here.
[8923] Mr. Dodgson renders “celebrated the Eucharist;” but that rendering appears very doubtful. See Acts xxvii. 35.
Chapter XXV.—Of Time for Prayer.
[8924] Mr. Dodgson supposes this word to mean “outward, as contrasted with the inward, ‘praying always.’” Oehler interprets, “ex vita communi.” But perhaps what Tertullian says lower down in the chapter, “albeit they stand simply without any precept enjoining their observance,” may give us the true clue to his meaning; so that “extrinsecus” would ="extrinsic to any direct injunction of our Lord or His apostles.”
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