257 Implied in the emphatic tu.
258 Sine u lo lenocinio pronunciationis.
259 Prima positio: the first inflection perhaps, i.e. the present tense.
260 Declinatio: the past tense.
263 This seems to be the meaning of the obscure passage, "Ut ejusdem sit Erat cujus et quod erat."
266 See below, ch. xxx. p. 494.
268 "Compertus est" is here a deponent verb.
270 Rudimento. Tertullian uses the word "rudis" (unformed) for the scriptural term ("void"); of this word "rudimentum" is the abstract.
272 Dedicans: "disposed" them.
273 Solatio lunae: a beautiful expression!
279 De reliquo nondum instructa.
281 Canit: "sing," as the Psalmist.
284 "Visibilis" is here the opposite of the term "invisibilis," which Tertullian uses for the Scripture phrase "without form."
287 Sustinebat: i.e. expectabat (Oehler).
292 He means, of course, the theoretic "Matter" of Hermogenes.
294 Demonstravit: "make it visible." Tertullian here all along makes form and visibility synonymous
296 Ostensam: "manifested" (see note 10, p. 96.)
297 Cum caelo separavit: Gen. i. 1.
315 Ista: the earth, which has been the subject of contention.
317 Scrupulo: doubt of difficulity.
318 Suggestus: "Hoc est, apparatus, ornatus" (Oehler).
319 It will be observed that Tertullian applies the spiritus to the wind as a creature.
325 Both in the quotation and here, Tertullian read "faciem" where we read "nostrils."
326 Cutem: another reading has "costam," rib.
327 See Gen. ii. 21, 23, iii. 5, 19, iv. 10.
328 Quatenus hic commendare videtur.
329 Dissimulato tacito intellectu.
333 De spiritu. This shows that Tertullian took the spirit of Gen. i. 2 in the inferior sense.