Opening the library…
Against the Valentinians
Tertullian
For this reason we are branded by them as simple,
Notamur.
Matt. x. 16.
In the original the phrase is put passively: “malim eam partem meliori sumi vitio.”
How terse is the original! minus sapere quam pejus.
Facies Dei.
Wisd. of Sol. i. 1.
Litaverunt: “consecrated.”
Tertullian’s words are rather suggestive of sense than of syntax: “Pueros vocem qui crucem clamant?”
Secundum Deum: “according to God’s will.”
1 Cor. xiv. 20, where Tertullian renders the ταῖς φρεσί (A.V. “understanding”) by “sensibus.”
Dedi.
i.e., without wisdom.
Concutere.