Chapter 6

Notes

1. 1

   This is a slight mistake of Tertullian. The words referred to, “Seek ye first,” etc., do not occur till the end of the chapter in which the prayer is found, so that his pluperfect is out of place. [He must have been aware of this: he only gives logical order to the thought which existed in the divine mind. See note 10, p. 682.]

2. 2

   Matt. vi. 33.

3. 3

   John vi. 35.

4. 4

   John vi. 33.

5. 5

   Matt. xxvi. 26.

6. 6

   Matt. vi. 32.

7. 7

   Tertullian seems to refer to Matt. xv. 26; Mark vii. 27.

8. 8

   Matt. vii. 9; Luke xi. 11.

9. 9

   Luke xi. 5–9.

10. 10

    Matt. vi. 34 and Luke xii. 29 seem to be referred to; but the same remark applies as in note 10 on the preceding page.

11. 11

    Luke xii. 16–20.