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29 Argumentari: in the sense of argutari.
30 Naviter nobis patrocinatur.
33 Cognominatur: as if by way of surname, Deus Dominus.
37 Extrema linea. Rhenanus sees in this phrase a slur against Hermogenes, who was an artist. Tertullian, Isuppose, meant that Hermogenes was extremely ignorant.
39 Libera: and so not a possible subject for the Lordship of God.
40 Matter having, by the hypothesis, been independent of God, and so incapable of giving Him any title to Lordship.
41 Fuit hoc utique. In Hermogenes' own opinion, which is thus shown to have been contradictory to itself, and so absurd.
42 Quod, with the subjunctive comparet.
47 The property of being eternal.
59 Quale autem est: "how comes it to pass that."
61 Isa. xli. 4, xliv. 6, xlviii. 12.
67 Of course, according to Hermogenes, whom Tertullian refutes with an argumentum ad hominem.
69 That is, having no God superior to themselves.
79 They are so deemed in the de Proescript. Hoeret. c. vii.
80 We have rather paraphrased the word "precario"-"obtained by prayer." [See p. 456.]
81 Domino: opposed to "precario."
85 Jam ergo: introducing an argumentum ad hominem against Hermogenes.
88 Aut precario: "as having begged for it."
89 Precario: See above, note 2, p. 482.
90 De is often in Tertullian the sign of an instrumental noun.
95 Hac sua injectione. See our Anti-Marcion, iv. i., for this word, p. 345.
96 Assentator. Fr. Junius suggests "adsectator" of the stronger meaning "promoter;" nor does Oehler object.
98 Male: in reference to His alleged complicity with evil.