Opening the library…
On Baptism
Tertullian
An early Latin treatise defending Christian baptism, interpreting its biblical patterns, discussing preparation and administration, and warning against a teacher who rejected water baptism in the church.
For concluding our brief subject, it remains to put
Materiolam.
Summus sacerdos. Compare de Orat. xxviii., “nos…veri sacerdotes,” etc.: and de Ex. Cast. c. vii., “nonne et laici sacerdotes sumus?”
Census.
Disciplina.
i.e. the powers of administering baptism and “sowing the word.” [i.e. “The Keys.” Scorpiace, p. 643.]
Dicatum.
1 Cor. x. 23, where μοι in the received text seems interpolated.
Or, as Oehler explains it, of your power of baptizing, etc.
Quintilla. See c. i.
Evenerit. Perhaps Tertullian means literally—though that sense of the word is very rare—“shall issue out of her,” alluding to his “pariet” above.
See c. i. ad fin.
The allusion is to a spurious work entitled Acta Pauli et Theclæ. [Of which afterwards. But see Jones, on the Canon, II. p. 353, and Lardner, Credibility, II. p. 305.]
Decessisse.
Mulieri.
Fœminæ.