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[9161] Ad. It seems to mean flesh has strength given it, by patience, to meet the hardships of the flight. Compare the πρὸς πλησμονὴν τῆς σαρκὸς, of St. Paul in Col. ii. 23. [Kaye compares this with the De Fuga, as proof of the author’s freedom from Montanism, when this was written.]
[9162] Præveniat: “prevent” us, before we have time to flee.
[9163] Solo.
[9164] [Elucidation III.]
[9165] i.e. martyrdom.
[9166] Comp. Luke xii. 50.
[9168] “Adversus,” like the “ad” above, note 21, p. 713.
[9171] “Feretrum”—for carrying trophies in a triumph, the bodies of the dead, and their effigies, etc.
[9173] i.e. with rage and disappointment.
[9175] Operarius.
[9176] See 2 Tim. iv. 8. There is no authority for this statement of Tertullian’s in Scripture. [It is his inference rather.]
Chapter XV.—General Summary of the Virtues and Effects of Patience.
[9177] Si. This is Oehler’s reading, who takes “si” to be ="an.” But perhaps “sis” (="si vis”), which is Fr. Junius’ correction, is better: “Come, now, let us, if you please, give a general sketch of her mien and habit.”
[9178] Pura; perhaps “smooth.”
[9179] Compare with this singular feature, Isa. xxxvii. 22.
[9180] i.e., as Rigaltius (referred to by Oehler), explains, after the two visions of angels who appeared to him and said, “Arise and eat.” See 1 Kings xix. 4-13. [It was the fourth, but our author having mentioned two, inadvertently calls it the third, referring to the “still small voice,” in which Elijah saw His manifestation.]
[9181] One is finite, the other infinite.
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