Book 2 · Chapter 2

Notes

1. 1

   Prævaricationem.  Comp. de Pæn., c. iii.:  “Dissimulator et prævaricator perspicaciæ suæ (Deus) non est.”

2. 2

   1 Cor. vii. 12–14, in sense, not verbatim.

3. 3

   Mulieris.

4. 4

   Femina.

5. 5

   Comp. Eph. ii. 12, 19.

6. 6

   Comp. 1 Cor. vii. 15, 16 and Phil. iii. 8, in Vulg., for the word “lucrifieri.”

7. 7

   1 Cor. vii. 17, inexactly given, like the two preceding citations.

8. 8

   1 Cor. vii. 39, not verbatim.

9. 9

   i.e., St. Paul, who, as inspired by the Holy Spirit, is regarded by Tertullian as merged, so to speak, in the Spirit.

10. 10

    “Exemplum,” a rarer use of the word, but found in Cic.  The reference is to 1 Cor. vii. 7.

11. 11

    Detrimenta.

12. 12

    Districta (? =dis-stricta, “doubly strict”).

13. 13

    Comp. Phil. iii. 12, and c. vii. ad init.

14. 14

    See 1 Cor. vii. 14.

15. 15

    Comp. Jude 7, and above, “an alien and stranger,” with the reference there.