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[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.]
[8929] Acts iii. 1: but the man is not said to have been “paralytic,” but “lame from his mother’s womb.”
[8930] Dan. 6.10; Psa. 55.17 (in the LXX. it is liv. 18).
Chapter XXVI.—Of the Parting of Brethren.
[8931] I have ventured to turn the first part of the sentence into a question. What “scripture” this may be, no one knows. [It seems to me a clear reference to Matt. xxv. 38, amplified by the Matt. 25.45, in a way not unusual with our author.] Perhaps, in addition to the passages in Gen. 18; Heb. 13.2, to which the editors naturally refer, Tertullian may allude to such passages as Mark. ix. 37; Matt. xxv. 40, 45. [Christo in pauperibus.]
[8932] I have followed Routh’s conjecture, “feceris” for “fecerit,” which Oehler does not even notice.
Chapter XXVII.—Of Subjoining a Psalm.
[8934] Perhaps “the great Hallelujah,” i.e. the last five psalms.
[8935] [The author seems to have in mind (Hos. xiv. 2) “the calves of our lips.”]
Chapter XXVIII.—Of the Spiritual Victim, Which Prayer is.
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