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Part Fourth
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[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.
[357] Sermo, i.e., probably the personal Word. Comp. de Or., c. i. ad init.
[358] Rom. ii. 28-29; Phil. iii. 3; Col. ii. 11.
[359] Sæculi. The meaning here seems clearly to be, as in the text, “the Jewish age” or dispensation; as in the passages referred to— 1 Cor. x. 11, where it is τὰ τέλη τῶν αἰώνων; and Heb. ix. 26, where again it is τῶν αἰώνων, the Jewish and all preceding ages being intended.
Chapter III.—Marriage Good: Celibacy Preferable.
[360] “Jam hinc,” i.e., apparently from the time of Christ’s advent.
[364] Comp. de Idol., c. xxiii., and the note there on “se negant.”
[365] i.e., in martyrdom, on the ground of that open confession.
[366] Non obest.
[368] Laqueum = βρόχον (1 Cor. vii. 35), “a noose,” “lasso” (“snare,” Eng. ver.). “Laqueo trahuntur inviti” (Bengel).
[369] See note 13.
Chapter IV.—Of the Infirmity of the Flesh, and Similar Pleas.
[371] Adulamur: “we fawn upon,” or “caress,” or “flatter.” Comp. de Pæn., c. vi. sub init.: “flatter their own sweetness.”
[372] “Firmum,” opp. to “infirmam” above. In the passage there referred to (Matt. xxvi. 41) the word is πρόθυμον.
[373] Tuemur. Mr. Dodgson renders, “guard not.”
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