³² Ex. xxxii.

³³ Num. xxv 1.

³⁴ Judg. ii. 8-13.

³⁵ Judg. ii. 20, 21.

³⁶ An allusion to what occurred in the games, there being lines to mark the space within which the contests were to be waged.-.Tr.

³⁷ Literally, "disperse in vapour."-Tr.

³⁸ Literally, "age."-Tr.

³⁹ 1 Cor. xv. 41.

⁴⁰ Ps. xxxii. 1; Rom. iv. 7, etc.

⁴¹ 1 Pet. iv. 8.

⁴² Matt. xxii. 37.

⁴³ Prov. ix. 2: "She hath killed her beasts." The corresponding words in the Septuagint are e@sface ta\ e9auth=j qu/mata. Augustine, in his De Civ. Dei, xvi. 20, explains the victims (qu/mata) to be Martyrum vicimas.-Tr.

⁴⁴ Prov. i. 20, 21; see the Septuagint version.

⁴⁵ Isa. xliv. 5.

⁴⁶ Zech. xiii. 9.

⁴⁷ Rom. viii. 32.

⁴⁸ Rom. iv. 25.

⁴⁹ Rom. xi. 34.

⁵⁰ Ps. cxvi. 15.

⁵¹ Isa. lvii. 1.

⁵² Matt. xiv. 3.

⁵³ Dan. iii. 12.

⁵⁴ Baruch vi. 3.

⁵⁵ Dan. iii. 16.

⁵⁶ Tertullian means martydom.-Tr.

⁵⁷ Matt. v. 10; Luke vi. 23.

⁵⁸ Matt. x. 16.

⁵⁹ The words in the Greek, though correctly rendered in our authorized version, are, when translated literally, what Tertullian represents them to be.-Tr.

⁶⁰ The perfect.

⁶¹ The spell-resisting.

⁶² The steadfast.

⁶³ Isa. xl. 15.

⁶⁴ Matt. xvi. 13.

⁶⁵ Matt. vii. 12 and Luke vi. 31.

⁶⁶ Ps. xxiv. 7.

⁶⁷ Amos ix. 6.

⁶⁸ In support of my cause.

⁶⁹ More literally, "How long shall we suffer the third race!" The Christians are meant; the first race being the heathen, and the second the Jews.-Tr.

⁷⁰ Matt. x. 34.

⁷¹ Matt. x. 21.

⁷² Luke xiv. 26.

⁷³ Matt. x. 39.

⁷⁴ Matt. x. 19.

⁷⁵ Matt. xxv. 36.

⁷⁶ Luke xviii. 7.

⁷⁷ Matt. xiii. 3.

⁷⁸ See note 1, cap. iv. p. 637, supra.

⁷⁹ 1 Pet. ii. 20.

⁸⁰ [On Tertullian's orthodoxy, here, see Kaye, p. 502.

⁸¹ 1 John iii. 16.

⁸² 1 John iv. 18.

⁸³ Rev. ii. 10.

⁸⁴ Rev. ii. 13.

⁸⁵ Rev. iii. 10.

⁸⁶ Matt. xx. 20-23.

⁸⁷ Rev. vi. 9.

⁸⁸ Rev. vii. 14.

⁸⁹ Isa. i. 18.

⁹⁰ Rev. xvii. 6.

⁹¹ Rev. xxi. 8.

⁹² Gen. xxv. 34, xxvii. 25.

⁹³ 2 Thess. i. 4.

⁹⁴ Rom. v. 3.

⁹⁵ Rom. viii. 17.

⁹⁶ Rom. viii. 35.

⁹⁷ 2 Cor. xi. 23.

⁹⁸ 2 Cor. xii. 10.

⁹⁹ 2 Cor. iv. 8.

¹⁰⁰ Should be Philippians: i.e. Phil. i. 29, 30.

¹⁰¹ Phil. ii. 17.

This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College. Last updated on May 27, 1999. Contacting the CCEL.