The Prescription Against Heretics — Chapter 7

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1 Tim. iv. 1.

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1 Cor. iii. 18 and 25.

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Denique.

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Subornantur.

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Formeæ, “Ideæ” (Oehler).

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See Tertullian’s treatises, adversus Valentinum, xxv., and de Anima, xxi.; also Epiphanius, Hær. xxxi . 23.

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Volutatur.

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Retractatus.

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“De enthymesi;” for this word Tertullian gives animationem (in his tract against Valentinus, ix.), which seems to mean, “the mind in operation.” (See the same treatise, x. xi.) With regard to the other word, Jerome (on Amos. iii.) adduces Valentinus as calling Christ ἔκτρωμα, that is, abortion.

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Sententiis.

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Molestam.

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Tractaverit, in the sense of conclusively settling.

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1 Tim. i. 4.

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Tit. iii. 9.

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2 Tim. ii. 17.

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Col. ii. 8. The last clause, “præter providentiam Spiritus Sancti,” is either Tertullian’s reading, or his gloss of the apostle’s οὐ κατὰ Χριστόν—“not after Christ.”

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Because in the beginning of the church the apostles taught in Solomon’s porch, Acts iii. 5.

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Wisdom of Solomon, i. 1.

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Viderint.

Chapter 7

Chapter VII.—Pagan Philosophy the Parent of Heresies. The Connection Between Deflections from Christian Faith and the Old Systems of Pagan Philosophy.

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