84 Di/kaioj w9j foi/nic a0nqh/sei, Sept. Ps. xcii. 12.-"like a palm tree" (A.V.). We have here a characteristic way of Tertullian's quoting a scripture which has even the least bearing on his subject. [See Vol. I. (this series) p. 12, and same volume, p. viii.]
87 He here refers his reader to what he has written against Marcion, especially in his books i. and ii.
91 "Frictricis" is Oehler's reading.
100 As stated in ch. xii. and xiii.
109 "Corpse from falling." This, of course, does not show the connection of the words, like the Latin. [Elucidation I.]
112 Isa. vii. 14; Matt. i. 23.
121 Ps. lxix. 22. Tertullian only briefly gives the sense in two words: et potus amaros.
127 Resurrectio Mortuorum, of which we have been speaking.
129 For the opinions of those Valentinians who held that Christ's flesh was composed of soul or of spirit-a refined, ethereal substance-see Tertullian's De Carne Christi, cc. x.-xv.
132 Joel iii. 9-15; Dan. vii. 13, 14.
135 Luke xxi. 29, 30; Matt. xiv. 32.
136 Luke xxi. 31; Matt. xxiv. 33.
140 Compare The Apology, xl.; De Spect. xxvii.; De Exhort. Cast. xii.
142 Zech. xii. 1. comp. John xix. 37.
150 Ver. 20. The last clause in Tertullian is, "Quomodo sententiam fertis?"