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[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.”
[9018] Or, “heathendom”—sæculi.
[9019] Sæculo.
Chapter II.—God Himself an Example of Patience.
[9020] i.e. us Christians.
[9021] i.e. cynical = κυνικός = doglike. But Tertullian appears to use “caninæ” purposely, and I have therefore retained it rather than substitute (as Mr. Dodgson does) “cynical.”
[9022] i.e. the affectation is modelled by insensibility.
[9023] See Ps. lxxiv. 23 in A.V. It is Ps. lxxiii. in the LXX.
[9024] Because they see no visible proof of it.
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