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[336] Bunsen, vol. i. p. 134.
[337] [Written circa a.d. 207. Tertullian survived his wife; and we cannot date these books earlier than about the time of his writing the De Pallio, in the opinion of some.]
Chapter I.—Design of the Treatise. Disavowal of Personal Motives in Writing It.
[338] Jam hinc.
[339] Sæculo.
[340] Fidei.
[341] Sæcularibus.
[342] Posteritati; or, with Mr. Dodgson, “our future.”
[343] Deputantur.
[344] Solidum; alluding to certain laws respecting a widow’s power of receiving “in its entirety” her deceased husband’s property.
[345] Fidei commissum.
[346] Sæculo.
[348] Nulla…neminem—two negatives.
[349] See Matt. xxii. 23-33; Mark xii. 18-27; Luke xx. 27-40.
[350] Jam hinc. See beginning of chapter.
Chapter II.—Marriage Lawful, But Not Polygamy.
[351] Orbi. Gen. i. 28.
[352] Sæculo.
[354] Sane.
[355] “Fas,” strictly divine law, opp. to “jus,” human law; thus “lawful,” as opp. to “legal.”
[356] Plurifariam matrimoniis uti. The neut. pl. “matrimonia” is sometimes used for “wives.” Comp. c. v. ad fin. and de Pæn., c. xii. ad fin.
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