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[9045] See the previous chapter.
[9046] See the previous chapter.
[9047] See chap. i.
[9048] [All our author’s instances of this principle of the Præscriptio are noteworthy, as interpreting its use in the Advs. Hæreses.]
Chapter V.—As God is the Author of Patience So the Devil is of Impatience.
[9049] “Procedere:” so Oehler, who, however, notices an ingenious conjecture of Jos. Scaliger—“procudere,” the hammering out, or forging.
[9050] Tertullian may perhaps wish to imply, in prayer. See Matt. vi. 7.
[9051] Facere. But Fulv. Ursinus (as Oehler tells us) has suggested a neat emendation—“favere,” favours.
[9052] See Ps. viii. 4-6.
[9053] Compare the expression in de Idol. iv., “perdition of blood” ="bloody perdition,” and the note there. So here “angel of perdition” may ="lost angel.”
[9054] Mulier. See de Orat. c. xxii.
[9055] 1 Cor. 7.3; 1 Pet. 3.7.
[9056] Impetu.
[9057] Colonus. Gen. ii. 15.
[9058] Sapere. See de Idol. c. i. sub fin.
[9059] Homo.
[9060] Matrix. Mr. Dodgson renders womb, which is admissible; but the other passages quoted by Oehler, where Tertullian uses this word, seem to suit better with the rendering given in the text.
[9061] Compare a similar expression in de Idol. ii. ad init.
[9062] Which Tertullian has just shown to be the result of impatience.
[9063] i.e. murder.
[9064] i.e. unable to restrain.
[9065] i.e. want of power or patience to contemn gain.
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