26 See c. vi. ad init., and c. v. ad fin.
28 i.e., as Oehler rightly explains, "lacking the Holy Spirit's presence and virtue."
35 "Nypholeptos," restored by Oehler, = numfolh/ptouj.
36 So Tertullian reads, and some copies, but not the best, of the New Testament in the place referred to, John v. 1-9. [And note Tertullian's textual testimony as to this Scripture.]
39 Qui: i.e. probably "angeli qui."
43 Compare c. viii., where Tertullian appears to regard the Holy Spirit as given after the baptized had come out of the waters and recieved the "unction."
45 Arbiter. [Eccles. v. 6, and Acts xii. 15.]
47 Deut. xix. 15; Matt. xviii. 16; 2 Cor. xiii. 1.
50 Compare de Orat. c. ii. sub fin.
51 Compare the de Orat. quoted above, and de Patien. xxi.; and see Matt. xviii. 20.
53 See Ex. xxix. 7; Lev. viii. 12; Ps. cxxxiii. 2.
54 i.e. "Annointed." Aaron, or at least the priest, is actually so called in the LXX., in Lev. iv. 5, 16, o9 i9eru\j o9 Xristo/j: as in the Hebrew it is the word whence Messiah is derived which is used.
56 Acts iv. 27. "In this city" (e0n th|= po/lei tau/th|) is ommited in the English version; and the name 'Ihsou=n, "Jesus," is ommited by Tertullian. Compare Acts x. 38 and Lev. iv. 18 with Isa. lxi. 1 in the LXX.
57 [See Bunsen, Hippol. Vol. III. Sec. xiii. p. 22.]
59 The reference is to certain hydraulic organs, which the editors tell us are described by Vitruvius, ix. 9 and x. 13, and Pliny, H.N. vii. 37.
60 i.e. Man. There may be an allusion to Eph. ii. 10, "We are His worksmanship," and to Ps. cl. 4.
65 Matt. iii. 16; Luke iii. 22.
66 Ipso. The ancients held this.
67 Matt. x. 16. Tertullian has rendered a0ke/raioi (unmixed) by "simplices," i.e. without fold.
74 Compare de Idol. xxiv. ad fin.
75 [II. Pet. i. 9. Heb. x. 26, 27, 29. These awful texts are too little felt by modern Christians. They are too often explained away.]
76 Patrocinia-"pleas in defence."
77 "Libere expeditus," set free, and that without any conditions, such as Pharaoh had from tome to time tried to impose. See Ex. viii. 25, 28, x. 10, 11, 24.
78 "Extinxit," as it does fire.
82 "The Tree of Life," "the True Vine," etc.
86 Agape. See de Orat. c. 28, ad fin.
87 Dilectionis. See de Patien. c. xii.
93 Matt. xxvii. 24. Comp. de Orat. c. xiii.
94 John xix. 34. See c. xviii. sub fin.
96 Matt. xxi. 25; Mark xi. 30; Luke xx. 4.
100 It is difficult to see how this statement is to be reconciled with Acts v. 31. [i.e. under the universal illumination, John i. 9.]