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896 e0perxo/mene. The true Christ is o9 e0rxo/menoj.
901 This fable is not extant (Oehler).
904 Nisi quod nec ille. This ille, of course, means the Creator's Christ.
914 See a like comparison in book i. chap. xxix. p. 294.
915 Qui de infantia primus est: i.e., cujus qui de infantia, etc. [Elucidation VIII.]
918 I translate after Oehler's text, which is supported by the oldest authorities. Pamelius and Rigaltius, however, read "Christi lenitatem increpantis eandem animadversionem," etc. ("On the contrary, I recognize the gentleness of Christ, who rebuked His disciples when they," etc.) This reading is only conjectural, suggested by the "Christi lenitatem" of the context.
922 Compare De Patientia, chap. xv.
925 Salutem: i.e., "Christ, who is our salvation" (Fr. Junius).
928 Lev. xxi. I, according to our author's reading.
934 Compare above, book iv. chap. xiii. p. 364.
935 Ex. xv. 27 and Num. xxxiii. 9.
936 Causarum: "occasions" or circumstances.
937 Potestatum. In Marcionite terms, "The Gods of the Old and the New Testaments."
938 Consparsionum. [Punic Latin.] Ex. xii. 34,35.
939 Virgam, Luke x. 4, and Matt x. 10.
941 Expeditionem, with the sense also of "supplies" in the next clause.
947 Literally, "bless him not, i.e., salute him not."
948 Literally, "answer him not, i.e., return not his salvation."
950 2 Kings iv. 26. He reads the optative instead of the indicative.
953 Compare above, book ii. chap. 17, p. 311.
954 See this argued at length above, in book ii. chap. 20. p. 313.
961 The announcement (According to the definition) defining the beginning of its existence in time.
969 Ecclesiam. There is force in thus using Christian terms for Jewish ordinances, full as he is of the identity of the God of the old with Him of the ne covenant.
982 Secundum ordinem praedicationis.