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[385] Comp. Phil. iv. 19; 1 Tim. vi. 8.
[386] Comp. 1 Cor. vii. 35, esp. in Eng. ver.
[387] Recogita.
Chapter V.—Of the Love of Offspring as a Plea for Marriage.
[388] Comp. c. iv. above “præmissis maritis;” “when their husbands have preceded them (to glory).”
[389] Sæculo.
[390] Phil. i. 23; comp. de Pa., c. ix. ad fin.
[391] i.e., to get children.
[392] Expugnantur.
[393] “Parricidiis.” So Oehler seems to understand it.
[394] Luke xxi. 23; Matt. xxiv. 19.
[395] Sæculi.
[396] “Expiasse”—a rare but Ciceronian use of the word.
[398] Denotat.
[399] Sæculi.
[400] Sæculi. Comp.1 Cor. x. 11; but the Greek there is, τὰ τέλη τῶν αιώνων. By the “blindness,” Tertullian may refer to Gen. xix. 11.
[401] Or, “short” (Eng. ver.); 1 Cor. vii. 29. ὁ καιρὸς συνεσταλμενος, “in collecto.”
[402] “Matrimonia,” neut. pl. again for the fem., the abstract for the concrete. See c. ii., “to multiply wives,” and the note there. In the Greek (1 Cor. vii. 29) it is γυναῖκας: but the ensuing chapter shows that Tertullian refers the passage to women as well.
Chapter VI.—Examples of Heathens Urged as Commendatory of Widowhood and Celibacy.
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