Opening the library…
On Idolatry
Tertullian
But “let your works shine,” saith He; but
Matt. v. 16.
See chap. ix. p. 152, note 4.
Matt. xxii. 21; Mark xii. 17; Luke xx. 25.
See Gen. i. 26, 27; ix. 6; and comp. 1 Cor. xi. 7.
The word is the same as that for “the mouth” of a river, etc. Hence Oehler supposes the “entrances” or “mouths” here referred to to be the mouths of fountains, where nymphs were supposed to dwell. Nympha is supposed to be the same word as Lympha. See Hor. Sat. i. 5, 97; and Macleane’s note.
[He seems to refer to some Providential event, perhaps announced in a dream, not necessarily out of the course of common occurrences.]
Rom. xiii. 1, etc.; 1 Pet. ii, 13, 14.
Tit. iii. 1.
Dan. iii.
Dan. vi.
Matt. v. 14; Phil. ii. 15.
Ps. i. 1–3; xcii. 12–15.