Opening the library…
On Patience
Tertullian
As regards the rule of peace, which is so pleasing to
i.e. peace.
Impatientiæ natus: lit. “born for impatience.” Comp. de Pæniten. 12, ad fin. “nec ulli rei nisi pænitentiæ natus.”
Oehler reads “sed,” but the “vel” adopted in the text is a conjecture of Latinius, which Oehler mentions.
Septuagies septies. The reference is to Matt. xviii. 21, 22. Compare de Orat. vii. ad fin. and the note there.
Matt. v. 25.
Luke vi. 37.
Matt. v. 23, 24.
Eph. iv. 26. Compare de Orat. xi.
Gubernet.
What the cause is is disputed. Opinions are divided as to whether Tertullian means by it “marriage with a heathen” (which as Mr. Dodgson reminds us, Tertullian—de Uxor. ii. 3—calls “adultery”), or the case in which our Lord allowed divorce. See Matt. xix. 9.
i.e. patience.
Luke xv. 3–6.
Peccatricem, i.e. the ewe.
Luke xv. 11–32.
Dilectio = ἀγάπη. See Trench, New Testament Syn., s. v. ἀγάπη; and with the rest of this chapter compare carefully, in the Greek, 1 Cor. xiii. [Neander points out the different view our author takes of the same parable, in the de Pudicit. cap. 9, Vol. IV. this series.]
Protervum = Greek περπερεύεται.
Proterit = Greek ἀσχημονεῖ.
Excidet = Greek ἐκλείπει, suffers eclipse.