³⁴⁸ Unum. [On this famous passage see Elucidation III.]

³⁴⁹ Unus.

³⁵⁰ John x. 30.

³⁵¹ John xv. 1.

³⁵² John xvii. 1.

³⁵³ John xvii. 11.

³⁵⁴ Matt. xxvii. 46.

³⁵⁵ Luke xxiii. 46.

³⁵⁶ John xx. 17.

³⁵⁷ John xx. 31.

³⁵⁸ [A curious anecdote is given by Carlyle in his Life of Frederick (Book xx. cap. 6), touching the text of "the Three Witnesses." Gottsched satisfied the king that it was not in the Vienna ms. save in an interpolation of the margin "in Melanchthon's hand." Luther's Version lacks this text.]

³⁵⁹ Luke i. 35.

³⁶⁰ Inicer.

³⁶¹ i.e., the angel of the Annunciation.

³⁶² On this not strictly defensible term of Tertullian, see Bp. Bull's Defence of the Nicene Creed, book ii. ch. vii. sec. 5, Translation, pp. 199, 200.

³⁶³ John i. 14.

³⁶⁴ "The selfsame Person is understood under the appellation both of Spirit and Word, with this difference only, that He is called `the Spirit of God,0' so far as He is a Divine Person,...and `the Word,0' so far as He is the Spirit in operation, proceeding with sound and vocal utterance from God to set the universe in order."-Bp. Bull, Def. Nic. Creed, p. 535, Translation.

³⁶⁵ Ex ipso.

³⁶⁶ Substantive res.

³⁶⁷ Ipse Deus: i.e., God so wholly as to exclude by identity every other person.

³⁶⁸ Luke ii. 49.

³⁶⁹ Matt. iv. 3, 6.

³⁷⁰ Mark i. 24; Matt. viii. 29.

³⁷¹ Matt. xi. 25, 26; Luke x. 21; John xi. 41.

³⁷² Matt. xvi. 17.

³⁷³ Matt. xi. 25.

³⁷⁴ Matt. xi. 27; Luke x. 22.

³⁷⁵ Matt. x. 32, 33.

³⁷⁶ Matt. xxi. 33-41.

³⁷⁷ Matt. xxiv. 36.

³⁷⁸ Luke xxii. 29.

³⁷⁹ Matt. xxvi. 53.

³⁸⁰ Matt. xxvii. 46.

³⁸¹ Luke xxiii. 46.

³⁸² Luke xxiv. 49.

³⁸³ Non in unum.

³⁸⁴ Ipsae.

³⁸⁵ Luke i. 35.

³⁸⁶ Matt. i. 23.

³⁸⁷ His version of Ps. lxxxvii. 5.

³⁸⁸ Ex.

³⁸⁹ Rom. i. 3.

³⁹⁰ Ver. 4.

³⁹¹ See next chapter.

³⁹² i.e., Christ's divine nature.

³⁹³ John iii. 6.

³⁹⁴ Luke i. 35.

³⁹⁵ 1 Tim. ii. 5.

³⁹⁶ Acts iv. 27.

³⁹⁷ Acts ii. 36.

³⁹⁸ See 1 John ii. 22, iv. 2, 3, and v. 1.

³⁹⁹ 1 John i. 3.

⁴⁰⁰ Rom. i. 8.

⁴⁰¹ Gal. i. 1.

⁴⁰² John xx. 17.

⁴⁰³ Amos iv. 13, Sept.

⁴⁰⁴ Ps. ii. 2.

⁴⁰⁵ Here Tertullian reads tw=| Xristw=| mou Kuri/w|, instead of Ku/rw|, "to Cyrus," in Isa. xlv. 1.

⁴⁰⁶ Eph. i. 17.

⁴⁰⁷ Rom. viii. 11.

⁴⁰⁸ From this deduction of the doctrine of Praxeas, that the Father must have suffered on the cross, his opponents called him and his followers Patripassians.

⁴⁰⁹ 1 Cor. xv. 3.

⁴¹⁰ Gal. iii. 13.

⁴¹¹ Same ver.

⁴¹² Referimus: or, "Recite and record."

⁴¹³ Deut. xxi. 23.

⁴¹⁴ Gal. iii. 13.

⁴¹⁵ [This passage convinces Lardner that Praxeas was not a Patripassian. Credib. Vol. VIII. p. 607.]

⁴¹⁶ That is, the divine nature in general in this place.

⁴¹⁷ That which was open to it to suffer in the Son.

⁴¹⁸ Suo nomine.

⁴¹⁹ De nobis.

⁴²⁰ Matt. xxvii. 46.

⁴²¹ Rom. viii. 32.

⁴²² This is the sense rather than the words of Isa. liii. 5, 6.

⁴²³ Luke xxii. 46.

⁴²⁴ i.e., the divine nature.

⁴²⁵ 1 Cor. xv. 3, 4.

⁴²⁶ John iii. 13.

⁴²⁷ Eph. iv. 9.

⁴²⁸ Mark xvi. 19; Rev. iii. 21.

⁴²⁹ Acts vii. 55.

⁴³⁰ Ps. cx. 1.

⁴³¹ Acts i. 11; Luke xxi. 37.

⁴³² Tertullian was now a [pronounced] Montanist.

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