The Five Books Against Marcion — Book 3, Chapter 7

1

Rationem.

2

Humilitate.

3

A reference to, rather than quotation from, Isa. liii. 7.

4

Sicut puerulus, “like a little boy,” or, “a sorry slave.”

5

Isa. liii. 2, 3, according to the Septuagint.

6

See Isa. lii. 14; liii. 3, 4.

7

Isa. viii. 14.

8

Ps. viii. 6.

9

Ps. xxii. 7.

10

Consummationem: an allusion to Zech. iv. 7.

11

See Dan. ii. 34.

12

13

14

15

16

17

Joshua, i.e., Jesus.

18

Podere.

19

Cidari munda.

20

See Zech. iii.

21

Jejunio, see Lev. xvi. 5, 7, etc.

22

Circumdatus.

23

Perhaps in reference to Heb. ix. 19.

24

Civitatem, “city.”

25

In perditionem.

26

This treatment of the scape-goat was partly ceremonial, partly disorderly. The Mischna (Yoma vi. 4–6) mentions the scarlet ribbon which was bound round the animal’s head between the horns, and the “pulling” (rather plucking out of its hair); but this latter was an indignity practised by scoffers and guarded against by Jews. Tertullian repeats the whole of this passage, Adv. Jud. xiv. Similar use is made of the type of the scape-goat by other fathers, as Justin Martyr (Dial. cum Tryph.) and Cyril of Alex. (Epist. ad Acacium). In this book ix. Against Julian, he expressly says: “Christ was described by the two goats,—as dying for us in the flesh, and then (as shown by the scape-goat) overcoming death in His divine nature.” See Tertullian’s passages illustrated fully in Rabbi Chiga, Addit. ad Cod. de die Expiat. (in Ugolini, Thes. i. 88).

27

Quasi visceratione. [See Kaye’s important comment, p. 426.]

28

Jejunantibus.

Book 3 · Chapter 7

Chapter VII.—Prophecy Sets Forth Two Different Conditions of Christ, One Lowly, the Other Majestic. This Fact Points to Two Advents of Christ.

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