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[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.
[9079] Matt. vi. 38, and the references there given.
[9080] Composuit.
[9081] See Matt. v. 22; and Wordsworth in loco, who thinks it probable that the meaning is “apostate.”
[9082] Ps. cxl. 3; Rom. iii. 13; James iii. 8.
Chapter VII.—The Causes of Impatience, and Their Correspondent Precepts.
[9084] Sæculo.
[9085] Subjacet.
[9086] This appears to be the sense of this very difficult passage as Oehler reads it; and of Fr. Junius’ interpretation of it, which Oehler approves.
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