On Repentance
Tertullian
Chapter 12
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Chapter XII.—Final Considerations to Induce to Exomologesis.
If you shrink back from exomologesis, consider in your heart the
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On Repentance
Tertullian
If you shrink back from exomologesis, consider in your heart the
Why should I add more touching these two planks (as it were) of human salvation, caring more for the business of the pen than the duty of my conscience? For, sinner as I am of every dye, and born for nothing save repentance, I cannot easily be silent about that concerning which also the very head and fount of the human race, and of human offence, Adam, restored by exomologesis to his own paradise, is not silent.
Gehennam. Comp. ad Ux.ii. c. vi. ad fin.
Fumariola, i.e. the craters of volcanoes.
Superbissimi: perhaps a play on the word, which is connected with “super” and “superus,” as “haughty” with “high.”
For Tertullian’s distinction between “the Lord’s baptism” and “John’s” see de Bapt. x.
Or “celandine,” which is perhaps only another form of “chelidonia” (“Chelidonia major,” Linn.).
Dan. iv. 25 sqq. See de Pa. xiii.
Proelium.
Ex. xiv. 15–31.
“Ministerium,” the abstract for the concrete: so “servitia” = slaves.
See c. iv. [Tabula was the word in cap. iv. but here it becomes planca, and planca post naufragium is the theological formula, ever since, among Western theologians.]
See de Bapt. xii. sub init.
Lit. “of all brands.” Comp. c. vi.: “Does the soldier…make satisfaction for his brands.”
Cf. Gen. iii. 24 with Luke xxiii. 43, 2 Cor. xii. 4, and Rev. ii. 7. [Elucidation IV.]