Chapter 13

Notes

1. 1

   The treatise De Spectaculis [soon to follow, in this volume.]

2. 2

   Rom. xii. 15.

3. 3

   See 2 Cor. vi. 14. In the De Spect. xxvi. Tertullian has the same quotation (Oehler). And there, too, he adds, as here, “between life and death.”

4. 4

   John xvi. 20. It is observable that Tertullian here translates κόσμον by “seculum.”

5. 5

   i.e., Lazarus, Luke xvi. 19–31.

6. 6

   “Apud inferos,” used clearly here by Tertullian of a place of happiness. Augustine says he never finds it so used in Scripture. See Ussher’s “Answer to a Jesuit” on the Article, “He descended into hell.” [See Elucid. X. p. 59, supra.]

7. 7

   i.e., if you are unknown to be a Christian: “dissimulaberis.” This is Oehler’s reading; but Latinius and Fr. Junis would read “Dissimulaveris,” ="if you dissemble the fact” of being a Christian, which perhaps is better.

8. 8

   So Mr. Dodgson renders very well.

9. 9

   Matt. x. 33; Mark viii. 38; Luke ix. 26; 2 Tim. ii. 12.