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[9103] Deut. xxi. 23; Gal. iii. 13. Tertullian’s quotations here are somewhat loose. He renders words which are distinct in the Greek by the same in his Latin.
[9104] Communicari—κοινοῦσθαι. See Mark vii. 15, “made common,” i.e. profane, unclean. Compare Acts x. 14, 15 in the Greek.
[9105] Reatum. See de Idol. i. ad init., “the highest impeachment of the age.”
[9106] Matt. xii. 36. Tertullian has rendered ἀργόν by “vani et supervacui.”
[9107] Dispungetur: a word which, in the active, means technically “to balance accounts,” hence “to discharge,” etc.
Chapter IX.—Of Patience Under Bereavement.
[9108] 1 Thess. iv. 13, not very strictly rendered.
[9109] Desiderandus.
[9110] Phil. i. 23, again loosely rendered: e.g. ἀναλῦσαι ="to weigh anchor,” is rendered by Tertullian “recipi.”
[9111] See Gal. v. 26; Phil. ii. 3.
[9112] Nunquam non.
[9113] i.e. perhaps superior in degree of malice.
[9114] i.e. of the world and its erroneous philosophies.
[9116] Fastidientes, i.e. our loathing or abhorrence of sin. Perhaps the reference may be to Rom. xii. 9.
[9118] Isa. lxiv. 8; 2 Cor. iv. 7.
[9119] Servulis.
[9120] Præsumpsissent.
[9121] Deut. xxxii. 35; Ps. xciv. 1; Rom. xii. 19; Heb. x. 30.
[9122] Matt. vii. 1; Luke vi. 37.
[9123] i.e. the penalty which the law will inflict.
Chapter XI.—Further Reasons for Practising Patience. Its Connection with the Beatitudes.
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