The Five Books Against Marcion — Book 3, Chapter 1

1

Perseveramus.

2

Ex abundanti.

3

i.e., “as the Son of, or sent by, no other God.”

4

i.e., “was the Son of, or sent by, no other God.”

5

Recensu.

6

[Surely Tertullian, when he wrote this, imagined himself not separated formally from the Apostolic churches. Of which see De Præscriptione, (p. 258) supra.]

7

Ubi posteritas invenitur. Compare De Præscript. Hæret. 34, where Tertullian refers to “that definite rule, before laid down, touching ‘the later date’ (illo fine supra dicto posteritatis), whereby they (i.e., certain novel opinions) would at once be condemned on the ground of their age alone.” In 31 of the same work he contrasts “posteritatem mendacitatis” with “principalitatem veritatis”—“the latter date of falsehood” with “the primary date of truth.” [pp. 258, 260, supra.]

8

See book i. chap. 1.

9

Non ut laborantem. “Qui enim laborant non totis sed fractis utuntur viribus.” Πανστρατιᾷ πανσυδίῃ; Anglice, “with all her might.”

10

In præscript. compendiis vincit.

11

Ut gestientem.

Book 3 · Chapter 1

Chapter I.—Introductory; A Brief Statement of the Preceding Argument in Connection with the Subject of This Book.

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