48 Corporationem.

49 Compaer similar passages in the Anti-Marcion, iii. I and iv. 21.

50 Insolescentem.

51 Enitentis.

52 Religiosum.

53 Cum suis impedimentis profusum.

54 Unctionibus formatur.

55 Hanc venerationem naturae. Compare Tertullian's phrase, "Illa sanctissima et reverenda opera naturae," in the Anti-Marcion, iii. 11.

56 Videris.

57 Per lidibria nutritum. Compare the phrase just before, "smiled on with nurse's fawns"-"blanditiis deridetur." Oehler, however, compares the phrase with Tertullian's expression ("puerperii spurcos, anxios, ludicros exitus,") in the Anti-Marcion, iv. 21.

58 Phil. ii. 8.

59 Haec: i.e. man's nativity and his flesh.

60 Literally, "by a heavenly regeneration."

61 Revera. [I cannot let the words which follow, stand in the text; they are sufficiently rendered.]

62 1 Cor. i. 27.

63 Aufer, Marcion. Literally, "Destroy this also, O Marcion."

64 Educari an sepeliri.

65 Recidisti.

66 Vacua ludibria.

67 Paul was of great authority in Marcion's school.

68 1 Cor. ii. 2.

69 Excusas.

70 The humiliation which God endured, so indispensable a part of the Christian faith.

71 Matt. x. 22, Mark. viii. 38, and Luke ix. 26.

72 Ineptum.

73 That is, imaginary and unreal.

74 Census: "the origin."

75 Dispuncta est.

76 This term is alsmot a technical designation of the divine nature of Christ in Tertullian. (See our translation of the Anti-Marcion, p. 247, note 7, Edin.)

77 This term is alsmot a technical designation of the divine nature of Christ in Tertullian. (See our translation of the Anti-Marcion, p. 247, note 7, Edin.)

78 This term is alsmot a technical designation of the divine nature of Christ in Tertullian. (See our translation of the Anti-Marcion, p. 247, note 7, Edin.)

79 Dimidias.

80 See his Adv. Valentin, chap. 25.

81 Luke xxiv. 39.

82 Avocatorem.

83 He has Appelles mainly in view.

84 Sine praejudicio tamen. "Without prejudice to their denial, etc."

85 The Roman version of the proverb is "out of the lime-kiln into the coal-furnace."

86 See Tertullian, de Proescr. Hoeret. c. xxx.

87 Ab eo: or, "from that event of the carnal contract." A good reading, found in most of the old books, is ab ea, that is, Philumene.

88 Gal. i. 8.

89 Ex ea qualitate in qua.

90 Ipsius: the Creator.

91 Forma.

92 Aeque.

93 Quod, quia nascitur, moritur.

94 Pro.

95 Ediscebat. Compare a fine passage of Tertullian on this subject in our Anti-Marcion, note 10, p. 112, Edin.

96 Ceterum.

97 The angels'.

98 Sidera. Drawn, as they thought, from the stars.

99 Ps. lxxviii. 24.

100 Matt. xii. 48; Luke viii. 20, 21.

101 See our Anti-Marcion, iv. 19.

102 Literally, "heresies."

103 Luke x. 25.

104 Literally, "nobody prevented its being, etc."

105 Subesse.

106 Materia.

107 Eo adicimus etiam.

108 Supervenissent.

109 John vii. 5.

110 Non computantes scilicet.

111 Nec sustinent saltem.

112 Contendens: "videlicet sponsionibus" (Oehler)

113 Literally, "Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?"-Christ's own words.

114 The alius is a genitive, and must be taken with sermonis.

115 Abnegavit: "repudiated."

116 Force of the indicative quale erat.

117 Luke xi. 27, 28. See also our Anti-Marcion, p. 292, Edin.

118 Isti Apelleiaci.

119 Ignominam.

120 Ab igneo illo praeside mali: see Tertullian's de Anima. xxiii.; de Resur. Carn. v.; Adv. Omnes Hoeres. vi.

121 Peccatum.

122 Mundus is here the universe of entire creation.

123 Matt. vii. 17.

124 Censu.

125 Plane.

126 1 Cor. xv. 47.

127 Retro.

128 Secundum carnem.

129 Ei adaequantur.

130 Fit.

131 Sua.

132 Metalla.


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