153 Restauraverit virtutes ejus.
157 Ecquid ordinis.See above, book i. chap. xxiii. [Comp. i. cap. xix.]
158 This is here the force of viderit, our author's very favourite idiom.
162 Descendisse autem, dum fit, videtur et subit oculos. Probably this bit of characteristic Latinity had better be rendered thus; "The accomplishment of a descent, however, is, whilst happening, a visible process, and one that meets the eye." Of the various readings, "dum sit," "dum it," "dum fit," we take the last with Oehler, only understanding the clause as a parenthesis.
166 Ingressuro praedictationem.
167 This is the literal rendering of Tertullian's version of the prophet's words, which occur chap. ix. 1, 2. The first clause closely follows the LXX. (ed. Tisch.): Tou=to prw=ton pi/e, taxu/ poi/ei. This curious passage is explained by Grotius (on Matt. iv. 14) as a mistake of ancient copyists; as if what the Seventy had originally rendered taxu\ poi/ei, from the hiphil of l@l@q
, had been faultily written taxu\ pi/e, and the latter had crept into the text with the marginal note prw=ton, instead of a repetition of taxu\. However this be, Tertullian's old Latin Bible had the passage thus: "Hoc primum bibito, cito facito, regio Zabulon," etc.
183 See above, in book iii. chap. xii., on the name Emmanuel; in chap. xv., on the name Christ; and in chap. xvi., on the name Jesus.
185 Ps. xvi. 10, and probably Dan. ix. 24.
186 Compare what was said above in book iii., chap. xvi. p. 335.
188 Such is our author's reading of Luke i. 35.
193 De candida salutis: see Luke x. 20.
198 Ipso nomine, or by His very name.
199 Nazaraeos; or, Nazarites. [Christians were still so called by the Jews in the Third Century. Kaye, 446.]
201 Descendit apud, see Luke iv. 16-30.
206 A rebuke of Marcion's Docetic views of Christ.
209 "For nothing can touch and be touched but a bodily substance." This line from Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, i. 305, is again quoted by Tertullian in his De Anima, chap. v. (Oehler).
219 See above, book i. chap. vii. xxvi. and xxvii.
226 Sermonem. [Nota Bene, Acts vii. 38.]
228 The law was given in the wilderness of Sinai; see Ex. xix. 1.
231 Argumentum processurum erat.