348 Unum. [On this famous passage see Elucidation III.]

349 Unus.

350 John x. 30.

351 John xv. 1.

352 John xvii. 1.

353 John xvii. 11.

354 Matt. xxvii. 46.

355 Luke xxiii. 46.

356 John xx. 17.

357 John xx. 31.

358 [A curious anecdote is given by Carlyle in his Life of Frederick (Book xx. cap. 6), touching the text of "the Three Witnesses." Gottsched satisfied the king that it was not in the Vienna ms. save in an interpolation of the margin "in Melanchthon's hand." Luther's Version lacks this text.]

359 Luke i. 35.

360 Inicer.

361 i.e., the angel of the Annunciation.

362 On this not strictly defensible term of Tertullian, see Bp. Bull's Defence of the Nicene Creed, book ii. ch. vii. sec. 5, Translation, pp. 199, 200.

363 John i. 14.

364 "The selfsame Person is understood under the appellation both of Spirit and Word, with this difference only, that He is called `the Spirit of God, 0' so far as He is a Divine Person,...and `the Word, 0' so far as He is the Spirit in operation, proceeding with sound and vocal utterance from God to set the universe in order."-Bp. Bull, Def. Nic. Creed, p. 535, Translation.

365 Ex ipso.

366 Substantive res.

367 Ipse Deus: i.e., God so wholly as to exclude by identity every other person.

368 Luke ii. 49.

369 Matt. iv. 3, 6.

370 Mark i. 24; Matt. viii. 29.

371 Matt. xi. 25, 26; Luke x. 21; John xi. 41.

372 Matt. xvi. 17.

373 Matt. xi. 25.

374 Matt. xi. 27; Luke x. 22.

375 Matt. x. 32, 33.

376 Matt. xxi. 33-41.

377 Matt. xxiv. 36.

378 Luke xxii. 29.

379 Matt. xxvi. 53.

380 Matt. xxvii. 46.

381 Luke xxiii. 46.

382 Luke xxiv. 49.

383 Non in unum.

384 Ipsae.

385 Luke i. 35.

386 Matt. i. 23.

387 His version of Ps. lxxxvii. 5.

388 Ex.

389 Rom. i. 3.

390 Ver. 4.

391 See next chapter.

392 i.e., Christ's divine nature.

393 John iii. 6.

394 Luke i. 35.

395 1 Tim. ii. 5.

396 Acts iv. 27.

397 Acts ii. 36.

398 See 1 John ii. 22, iv. 2, 3, and v. 1.

399 1 John i. 3.

400 Rom. i. 8.

401 Gal. i. 1.

402 John xx. 17.

403 Amos iv. 13, Sept.

404 Ps. ii. 2.

405 Here Tertullian reads tw=| Xristw=| mou Kuri/w|, instead of Ku/rw|, "to Cyrus," in Isa. xlv. 1.

406 Eph. i. 17.

407 Rom. viii. 11.

408 From this deduction of the doctrine of Praxeas, that the Father must have suffered on the cross, his opponents called him and his followers Patripassians.

409 1 Cor. xv. 3.

410 Gal. iii. 13.

411 Same ver.

412 Referimus: or, "Recite and record."

413 Deut. xxi. 23.

414 Gal. iii. 13.

415 [This passage convinces Lardner that Praxeas was not a Patripassian. Credib. Vol. VIII. p. 607.]

416 That is, the divine nature in general in this place.

417 That which was open to it to suffer in the Son.

418 Suo nomine.

419 De nobis.

420 Matt. xxvii. 46.

421 Rom. viii. 32.

422 This is the sense rather than the words of Isa. liii. 5, 6.

423 Luke xxii. 46.

424 i.e., the divine nature.

425 1 Cor. xv. 3, 4.

426 John iii. 13.

427 Eph. iv. 9.

428 Mark xvi. 19; Rev. iii. 21.

429 Acts vii. 55.

430 Ps. cx. 1.

431 Acts i. 11; Luke xxi. 37.

432 Tertullian was now a [pronounced] Montanist.


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