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[8997] This was the way by which the victims spared by the popular clemency escaped from the amphitheatre.
[8998] “Cadebant;” but “ardebant”—“were burning”—seems a more probable reading. [The imitations of the Shepherd of Hermas, in this memoir hardly need pointing out.]
[8999] Agios.
[9000] A presbyter, that is, whose office was to teach, as distinct from other presbyters. See Cyprian, Epistles, vol. i. Ep. xxiii. p. 68. note i. transl. [One of those referred to by St. James iii. 1, and by St. Paul, 1 Tim. v. 17.]
[9001] More probably, “rest and refresh yourselves.” [“Go and enjoy,” or, “play,” or “take pleasure,” in the section preceding.]
[9002] [To be regarded like the Shepherd of Hermas, merely as visions, or allegorical romances.]
[9003] “The gaolers,” so called from the “cataracta,” or prison-gate, which they guarded.
[9004] [A gentle banter, like that of St. Lawrence on the gridiron.]
[9005] A row of men drawn up to scourge them as they passed along, a punishment probably similar to what is called “running the gauntlet.”
[9007] Ita revocatæ discinguntur. Dean Milmam prefers reading this, “Thus recalled, they are clad in loose robes.”
[9008] [Routh, Reliq. Vol. I. p. 360.]
[9009] A cry in mockery of what was known as the effect of Christian baptism.
[9010] [Routh, Reliquiæ, Vol. I. p. 358.]
[9011] Republished, Oxford, 1838.
[9012] See Opp. Tom. xi. p. 657. Ed. Migne.
[9013] [Written possibly as late as a.d. 202; and is credited by Neander and Kaye, with Catholic Orthodoxy.]
Chapter I.—Of Patience Generally; And Tertullian’s Own Unworthiness to Treat of It.
[9014] “Nullius boni;” compare Rom. vii. 18.
[9015] [Elucidation I.]
[9016] i.e. who are strangers to it.
[9017] Or, “striving after.”
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