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[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.
[9066] “Ordinatur;” but “orditur” has been very plausibly conjectured.
[9067] Mr. Dodgson refers to ad Uxor. i. 5, q. v. sub fin.
[9068] Or, “unduteous of duteousness.”
[9069] i.e. impatient.
[9070] I have departed slightly here from Oehler’s punctuation.
[9071] Ex. xxxii. 1; Acts vii. 39-40.
[9072] i.e. the water which followed them, after being given forth by the smitten rock. See 1 Cor. x. 4.
[9073] See Num. xx. 1-6. But Tertullian has apparently confused this with Ex. xv. 22, which seems to be the only place where “a three-days’ thirst” is mentioned.
[9074] Free, i.e. from the bondage of impatience and of sin.
Chapter VI.—Patience Both Antecedent and Subsequent to Faith.
[9075] See Gen. xv. 6; Rom. iv. 3, 9, 22; Gal. iii. 6; James ii. 23.
[9076] i.e. the trial was necessary not to prove his faith to God, who knows all whom He accounts righteous, but “typically” to us.
[9078] John i. 17; Rom. vi. 14-15.
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