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[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.”
[8925] Acts ii. 1-4, 14, 15.
[8926] Communitatis omnis (Oehler). Mr. Dodgson renders, “of every sort of common thing.” Perhaps, as Routh suggests, we should read “omnium.”
[8927] Vasculo. But in Acts it is, σκεῦός τι ὡς ὀθόνην μεγάλην [Small is here comparatively used, with reference to Universality of which it was the symbol.]
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