222 Volutabant: see Lactantius, iv. 22.
223 De nobis probatum est: or, perhaps, "has been proved to have happened in our own case."
229 Although Tertullian dignifies him with an ille, we have no particulars of this man. [It may be that this is an epithet, rather than a name, given to some enemy of truth like Zlexander the "Coppersmith" (2 Tim. iv. 14) or like that (1 Tim. i. 20), blasphemer, whose character suits the case.]
231 So Bp. Kaye renders "carnem peccati." [See his valuable note, p. 253.]
232 We take the meminerimus to refer "to the Creed."
236 "Tertullian, referring to St. Paul, says of Christ: `Evacuavit peccatum in carne; 0' alluding, as I suppose, to Romans viii. 3. But the corresponding Greek in the printed editions is kate/krine th\n a9marti/an e0n th=| sarki/ (`He condemned sin in the flesh 0'). Had Tertullian a different reading in his Greek mss., or did he confound Romans viii. 3 with Romans vi. 6, i#na katarghqh=| to\ sw=ma th\j a9marti/aj (`that the body of sin might be destroyed 0')? Jerome translates the Greek katarge/w by `evacuo, 0' c. xvi. See Adv. Marcionem, ver. 14. Dr. Neander has pointed out two passages in which Tertullian has `damnavit or damnaverit delinquentiam in carne. 0' See de Res. Carnis. 46; de Pudicitiâ. 17."-Bp. Kaye.
240 Transire in: "to pass into."
253 As we have often observed, the term Spiritus is used by Tertullian to express the Divine Nature in Christ. Anti-Marcion, p. 375, note 13.
258 Literally, "in which it became flesh."
261 [A very perspicuous statement of the Incarnation is set forth in this chapter.]
262 Tertullian reads this in the singular number, "natus est."
264 We need not say that the mass of critical authority is against Tertullian, and with his opponents, in their reading of this passage.
265 He refers to the Valentinians. See our translation of this tract against them, chap. xxv., etc., p. 515, supra.
266 Formalis nostrae nativitatis.
269 Medicando. [This is based on Job x. 10, a favourite passage with the Fathers in expounding the generative process.]
271 Which is all that the heretics assign to Him.
272 Such as Valentinus ascribed to Him. See above, c. xv. p. 511.
273 Indicating the material or ingredient, "out of."
286 Concarnatus et convisceratus: "united in flesh and internal structure."
287 Sentinam illam inferni sanguinis.
290 Isa. vii. 14; Matt. i. 23.