Opening the library…
Against the Valentinians
Tertullian
But, further, there is an “acceptance of persons
Exceptio.
Tertullian has, above, remarked on the silent and secret practices of the Valentinians: see chap. i. p. 503.
In hunc derivaret.
Sed enim.
De Patre.
Præ vi dulcedinis et laboris.
It is not easy to say what is the meaning of the words, “Et in reliquam substantiam dissolvi.” Rigaltius renders them: “So that whatever substance was left to her was being dissolved.” This seems to be forcing the sentence unnaturally. Irenæus (according to the Latin translator) says: “Resolutum in universam substantiam,” “Resolved into his (the Father’s) general substance,” i. 2, 2. [Vol. I. p. 317.]
Illius.
So Grabe; but Reaper, according to Neander.
Animationem.