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[2196] A fragment by the martyr Victorinus, bishop of Petau, who flourished towards the end of the third century. [He died in the persecution a.d. 304. For the text and full annotations, see Routh, iii. 451–483. His See must not be confounded with the Gallic Poictiers. He was of Petau in Austria (Pannonia Superior), as Launoy demonstrated a.d. 1653.]
[2198] Rev. iv. 6. [See vol. v. note 3, p. 618, this series.]
[2200] παρασκευή.
[2204] 1 Macc. ii. 31-41.
[2205] Ps. vi. 1; [also Ps. xii. On Sheminith, 1 Chron. xv. 21].
[2207] Mattathias, interp. Vulg.
[2211] Ps. xxxiii. 6. [Seven, say the Rabbis. Vol. ii. note 7, p. 438, this series.]
[2212] Probably “knowledge.”
[2214] Or, “the rivers are spread abroad.”
[2215] Trabes. [There is no proof of seven heavens in Scripture.]
[2216] Coma horribilis curabitur.
[2217] Ps. xlv. 1 [Vol. i. p. 213, this series.]
[2227] Acts vi. 3?. [This is how the footnote in the print edition is worded. The only verse in the Bible that lists the seven churches is Rev. i. 11.]
[2229] Rev. passim.
[2238] Ea die in sanguine.
[2240] “He makes the deaf to hear, and recalls the dead:” this is inserted conjecturally by Routh.
[2242] Isa. xi. 2. [P. 342, supra.]
[2247] [Abba = father. Fathers, rather.]
[2258] John iii. 34, 35. [Compare Wordsworth on the Apocalypse.]
[2262] Operantur, conjectured to be “vivunt.”
[2263] Num. xxiii. [Wordsworth, ed. 1852, pp. 78–92.]
[2264] Gen. ix. [Wordsworth, Lect. iv.]
[2265] Mark i. 3. [On the Zoa, see p. 341, supra.]
[2272] The living creatures are held to be the Gospels, or the acts and teaching of our Lord narrated in them. [Wordsworth, Lect. iv.]
[2275] [The Creed and the evangelical priests. Vol. ii. note 4, p. 173.]
[2284] [The rule of Mede’s “Synchronisms.”]
[2290] [Some excuse for Tertullian’s lapse is found in the prevailing uncertainty about the withdrawal of prophetic gifts.]
[2298] [No hint here that this was a manifestation of the Blessed Virgin, the modern fiction of Rome. See vol. vi, p. 355, this series.]
[2299] [A noteworthy testimony to primitive interpretation.]
[2300] [Compare Tertullian, De Fuga, vol. iv. p. 117, this series.]
[2303] [The Edinburgh edition seems to follow the confusion of MSS., introducing here the seventeenth chapter, out of place.]
[2304] [But see Irenæus, vol. i. p. 559.]
[2306] Matt. xxiv. 15; Dan. ix. 27.
[2308] [Apparently in conflict with what our author says supra, pp. 352 and 355.]
[2311] [Compare vol. v. pp. 207, 215, caps. 15 and 54.]
From the twenty-first and twenty-second chapters.
[2313] Gen. vi. 14, LXX.
[2314] [Called the philosophical virtues. Vol. ii. note 7, p. 502.]
[2315] [From a Western theologian of the date of our author. This is emphatic.]
[2316] [Compare vol. v. p. 561, Elucidation VII.]
[2317] [Here is evidence that Cerinthus (see vol. i. 351, 352) and other heretics had disgusted the Church even with the less carnal views of the Millenium entertained by the better “Chiliasts,” such as Commodian. See vol. iv. pp. 212 and 218.]
General Notes by the American Editor
[2318] By William Lee, D.D., archdeacon of Dublin.
[2319] The Lord’s day is here the Paschal feast, “the Great Sunday,” probably. See Eichhorn in Rosenmüller, Scholia, tom. v. p. 626.
[2320] P. 345, sec. 16.
[2321] Civ. Dei, xx. cap. 7, p. 667, ed. Migne.
[2322] See vol. iii. note 5, pp. 624, 630.
[2323] Ut supra, p. 249, note 15.
[2324] See Kaye’s Tertullian, p. 530, for a brief comment on this and its supposed scriptural base.
[2325] Virtually in the fifteenth, as Annius published his theory in 1502, and wrote, no doubt, before that century began. Vol. vi. p. 139.
[2326] Vol. vi. p. 126, this series.
[2328] Vol. v. p. 207, this series.
[2329] Compare vol. iii. p. 428, Elucidation VIII.
[2330] See p. 360, note 2.
[2331] Credib., vol. iv. p. 254.
[2332] P. 344, note 6, supra.
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