Against Praxeas — Chapter 2

1

The Church afterwards applied this term exclusively to the Holy Ghost. [That is, the Nicene Creed made it technically applicable to the Spirit, making the distinction marked between the generation of the Word and the procession of the Holy Ghost.]

2

The “Comforter.”

3

See our Anti-Marcion, p. 119, n. 1. Edin.

4

See his De Præscript. xxix.

5

Tertullian uses similar precaution in his argument elsewhere. See our Anti-Marcion, pp. 3 and 119. Edin.

6

οἰκονομία.

7

Dirigens.

8

Statu.

9

See The Apology, ch. xxi.

10

Specie.

11

See Bull’s Def. Fid. Nic., and the translation (by the translator of this work), in the Oxford Series, p. 202.

Chapter 2

Chapter II.—The Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity and Unity, Sometimes Called the Divine Economy, or Dispensation of the Personal Relations of the Godhead.

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