Chapter 8

Notes

1. 1

   Sæculo.

2. 2

   Delibatione.

3. 3

   i.e. money and the like. Compare Matt. vi. 25; Luke xii. 23.

4. 4

   Matt. v. 39.

5. 5

   Improbitas.

6. 6

   Constrictus. I have rendered after Oehler: but may not the meaning be “clenched,” like the hand which deals the blow?

7. 7

   As Oehler says “the blow” is said to “receive” that which, strictly, the dealer of it receives.

8. 8

   Improbum.

9. 9

   Matt. v. 11, 12; Luke vi. 22, 23.

10. 10

    Deut. xxi. 23; Gal. iii. 13. Tertullian’s quotations here are somewhat loose. He renders words which are distinct in the Greek by the same in his Latin.

11. 11

    Communicari—κοινοῦσθαι. See Mark vii. 15, “made common,” i.e. profane, unclean. Compare Acts x. 14, 15 in the Greek.

12. 12

    Reatum. See de Idol. i. ad init., “the highest impeachment of the age.”

13. 13

    Matt. xii. 36. Tertullian has rendered ἀργόν by “vani et supervacui.”

14. 14

    Dispungetur: a word which, in the active, means technically “to balance accounts,” hence “to discharge,” etc.