Chapter 25

Notes

1. 1

   Mr. Dodgson supposes this word to mean “outward, as contrasted with the inward, ‘praying always.’” Oehler interprets, “ex vita communi.” But perhaps what Tertullian says lower down in the chapter, “albeit they stand simply without any precept enjoining their observance,” may give us the true clue to his meaning; so that “extrinsecus” would ="extrinsic to any direct injunction of our Lord or His apostles.”

2. 2

   Acts ii. 1–4, 14, 15.

3. 3

   Communitatis omnis (Oehler). Mr. Dodgson renders, “of every sort of common thing.” Perhaps, as Routh suggests, we should read “omnium.”

4. 4

   Vasculo. But in Acts it is, σκεῦός τι ὡς ὀθόνην μεγάλην [Small is here comparatively used, with reference to Universality of which it was the symbol.]

5. 5

   Acts x. 9.

6. 6

   Acts iii. 1: but the man is not said to have been “paralytic,” but “lame from his mother’s womb.”

7. 7

   Dan. vi. 10; comp. Ps. lv. 17 (in the LXX. it is liv. 18).