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288 See his Timoeus, c. xxxii. p. 71.
291 Who mentions this story of the Atlantes in iv. 184.
293 Gen. ii. 17 [Not ex natura, but as penalty.]
295 It is difficult to say what Tertullian means by his "comicum credo." Is it a playful parody on the heretic's name, the same as the comic poet's (Menander)?
304 In mortem directo institutus est. [See p. 227, supra.]
305 We have made Tertullian's "Cervicum messis" include both these modes of instantaneous death.
307 1 Cor. iii. 16, vi. 19; 2 Cor. vi. 16.
308 An Alexandrian philosopher in great repute with the Emperor Augustus.
314 See Irenaeus, adv. Hares. v. [Vol. I. p. 566, this Series.]
316 1 Cor. xv. 52 and 1 Thess. iv. 16.
322 The souls of the martyrs were, according to Tertullian, at one removed to Paradise. (Bp. Kaye, p. 249).
323 De Paradiso. [Compare, p. 216, note 9, supra.]
327 We have treated this particle as a conjunction but it may only be an intensive particle introducing an explanatory clause: "even those which were pure," etc. [a better rendering.]
329 Oehler takes these descriptive clauses as meant of Satan, instead of being synonymes of magic, as the context seems to require.
331 Above, in ch. xxxix. p. 219.
333 One who fought with wild beasts in the public games, only without the weapons allowed to the gladiator.
336 See above in ch. xxviii. p. 209, supra.
344 Luke xvi. 26. [Compare note 15. p. 231. supra.]
346 "Operienda" is Oehler's text; another reading gives "opperienda," q.d., "the soul must wait for the restored body."
347 This "etiam" is "otium" in the Agobardine ms., a good reading; q.d. "a most inquitous indifference to justice," etc.
348 Comp. The Apology, last chapter.
355 Morâ resurrectionis. See above, on this opinion of Tertullian, in ch. xxxv.
356 [A symptom of Montainism.]