Chapter 5

Notes

1. 1

   Prov. xxi. 1.

2. 2

   Or, “world,” sæculo.

3. 3

   Or, “world,” sæculi. See Matt. xxiv. 3, especially in the Greek. By “praying for some protraction in the age,” Tertullian appears to refer to some who used to pray that the end might be deferred (Rigalt.).

4. 4

   altari.

5. 5

   Rev. vi. 10.

6. 6

   So Dodgson aptly renders “dirigitur a.”

7. 7

   [See Ad Nationes, p. 128, supra.]