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279 Both His own and His people's.
280 Comp. adv. Judaeos, 11 and 12.
290 He treats "body" as here meaning womb.
294 The four books of the Kings were sometimes regarded as two, "the first" of which contained 1 and 2 Samuel, "the second" 1 and 2 Kings. The reference in this place is to 2 Samuel vii. 12.
295 He here again makes bowels synonymous with womb.
298 In 1 Kings xi. 14. "the Lord" is said to have done this. Comp. 2 Sam. xxiv. 1 with 1 Chron. xxi. i.
300 Or perhaps, "are found to belong to the Creator's Christ, not to Marcion's."
301 Marcion denied that there was any prophecy of national or Gentile conversion; it was only the conversion of individual proselytes that he held.
305 Sibynas, Sibu/nh o!plon do/rati paraplh/sion. Hesychius, "Sibynam appellant Illyrii telum venabuli simile." Paulus, ex Festo, p. 336, Mull. (Oehler.)
308 Junius explains the author's induxerunt by deleverunt; i.e., "they annulled your opinion about proselytes being the sole called, by their promulgation of the gospel."
309 Isa. lii. 7 and Rom. x. 15.
311 Pamelius regards this as a quotation from Isa. xlvi. 12,13, only put narratively, in order to indicate briefly its realization.
315 Comp. Ps. ii. 2,3, with Acts iv. 25-30.
319 Ezek. ix. 4. The ms. which T. used seems to have agreed with the versions of Theodotion and Aquila mentioned thus by Origen (Selecta in Ezek.): o9 de\ 'Aku/laj kai\ Qeodoti/wn fasi9. Shmei/wsij tou= Qau= e0pi\ ta\ me/twpa, k.t.l.. Origen, in his own remarks, refers to the sign of the cross, as indicated by this letter. Ed. Bened. (by Migne), iii. 802.
320 [Ambiguous, according to Kaye, p. 304, may mean a transition from Paganism to true Christianity.]
324 [Kaye remarks that traditions of practice, unlike the traditions of doctrine, may be varied according to times and circumstances. See p. 286.]
326 Architectum, Isa. iii. 1-3, abridged.
329 Compare Adv. Judaeos, 13, p. 171, for a like statement.
336 Defensus, perhaps "claimed."
339 Compare a passage in the Apology, chap. xxi. p. 34, supra.
347 See below, in book iv. chap. iv.
348 Ita ut describitur, i.e., in the literal sense.
352 On the Hope of the Faithful. This work, which is not extant (although its title appears in one of the oldest mss. of Tertllian, the Codex Agobardinus), is mentioned by St. Jerome in his Commentary on Ezekiel, chap. xxxvi.; in the preface to his Comment. on Isaiah, chap. xviii.; and in his notice of Papias of Hierapolis (Oehler).
354 [See Kaye's important Comment. p. 345.]
357 Phil. iii. 20, "our conversation," A.V.
361 That is, the Montanist. [Regarded as conclusive; but not conclusive evidence of an accomplished lapse from Catholic Communion.]