Opening the library…
Against the Valentinians
Tertullian
As for the human race, its end will be to
Choicæ: “clayey.”
Isa. xl. 6.
See above, in ch. xxiv. p. 515.
Interiores.
Averterant.
Neque detentui obnoxii.
Neque conspectui obnoxii.
Si ita est: or, “since such is the fact.”
Claudent.
But slaves, in fact.
This parenthetic clause, “tacendo jam dixi,” perhaps means, “I say this with shame,” “I would rather not have to say it.”
The common reading is, “Onesimum Æonem,” an Æon called Onesimus, in supposed allusion to Philemon’s Onesimus. But this is too far-fetched. Oehler discovers in “Onesimum” the corruption of some higher number ending in “esimum.”
This is Oehler’s idea of “et nulla jam fabula.” Rigaltius, however, gives a good sense to this clause: “All will come true at last; there will be no fable.”
The same as Macariotes, in ch. viii. above, p. 507.