²⁵⁷ Implied in the emphatic tu.

²⁵⁸ Sine u lo lenocinio pronunciationis.

²⁵⁹ Prima positio: the first inflection perhaps, i.e. the present tense.

²⁶⁰ Declinatio: the past tense.

²⁶¹ Caput.

²⁶² Scilicet.

²⁶³ This seems to be the meaning of the obscure passage, "Ut ejusdem sit Erat cujus et quod erat."

²⁶⁴ Habitum.

²⁶⁵ Deo subjacebat.

²⁶⁶ See below, ch. xxx. p. 494.

²⁶⁷ Matter.

²⁶⁸ "Compertus est" is here a deponent verb.

²⁶⁹ Minus factum.

²⁷⁰ Rudimento. Tertullian uses the word "rudis" (unformed) for the scriptural term ("void"); of this word "rudimentum" is the abstract.

²⁷¹ Depalans.

²⁷² Dedicans: "disposed" them.

²⁷³ Solatio lunae: a beautiful expression!

²⁷⁴ Significavit.

²⁷⁵ Belluis.

²⁷⁶ In vacuum: void.

²⁷⁷ Isa. xlv. 18.

²⁷⁸ Futura etiam perfecta.

²⁷⁹ De reliquo nondum instructa.

²⁸⁰ Genitalis humoris.

²⁸¹ Canit: "sing," as the Psalmist.

²⁸² Ps. xxiv. 1.

²⁸³ Emicantior.

²⁸⁴ "Visibilis" is here the opposite of the term "invisibilis," which Tertullian uses for the Scripture phrase "without form."

²⁸⁵ In congregatione una.

²⁸⁶ Gen. i. 9.

²⁸⁷ Sustinebat: i.e. expectabat (Oehler).

²⁸⁸ Gen. i. 10.

²⁸⁹ Ver. 11.

²⁹⁰ Ver. 24.

²⁹¹ Volo.

²⁹² He means, of course, the theoretic "Matter" of Hermogenes.

²⁹³ Isa. xlv. 18.

²⁹⁴ Demonstravit: "make it visible." Tertullian here all along makes form and visibility synonymous

²⁹⁵ Gen. i. 9.

²⁹⁶ Ostensam: "manifested" (see note 10, p. 96.)

²⁹⁷ Cum caelo separavit: Gen. i. 1.

²⁹⁸ Gen. i. 2.

²⁹⁹ Confusae.

³⁰⁰ Massalis illus molis.

³⁰¹ Situs.

³⁰² Dispositionem.

³⁰³ Tot formarum vocabulis.

³⁰⁴ Corpus confusionis.

³⁰⁵ Unicum.

³⁰⁶ Informe.

³⁰⁷ Autem.

³⁰⁸ Confusum.

³⁰⁹ Ex varietate.

³¹⁰ Unam speciem.

³¹¹ Unam ex multis speciem.

³¹² Istas species.

³¹³ Non habens formas.

³¹⁴ Agnoscitur.

³¹⁵ Ista: the earth, which has been the subject of contention.

³¹⁶ Speciecus.

³¹⁷ Scrupulo: doubt of difficulity.

³¹⁸ Suggestus: "Hoc est, apparatus, ornatus" (Oehler).

³¹⁹ It will be observed that Tertullian applies the spiritus to the wind as a creature.

³²⁰ Qua summale.

³²¹ Qua portionale.

³²² Scena.

³²³ Has species.

³²⁴ Gen. ii. 7.

³²⁵ Both in the quotation and here, Tertullian read "faciem" where we read "nostrils."

³²⁶ Cutem: another reading has "costam," rib.

³²⁷ See Gen. ii. 21, 23, iii. 5, 19, iv. 10.

³²⁸ Quatenus hic commendare videtur.

³²⁹ Dissimulato tacito intellectu.

³³⁰ Prov. viii. 24.

³³¹ Subjecta.

³³² Isa. xlv. 7.

³³³ De spiritu. This shows that Tertullian took the spirit of Gen. i. 2 in the inferior sense.

³³⁴ So also the Septuagint.

³³⁵ So also the Septuagint.

³³⁶ Amos iv. 13.

³³⁷ The "wind."

³³⁸ John iv. 24.

³³⁹ Flatum: "breath;" so LXX. of Isa. lvii. 16.

³⁴⁰ Fonter, quae.

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