³³ I cannot find any such passage. Oehler refers to Lev. xxi. 14, but neither the Septuagint nor the Vulgate has any such prohibition there.

³⁴ Matt. v. 17, very often referred to by Tertullian.

³⁵ Comp. 1 Tim. iii. 1, 2; Tit. i. 5, 6; and Ellicott's Commentary.

³⁶ Sacerdotibus.

³⁷ Rev. i. 6.

³⁸ See Hab. ii. 4; Rom. i. 17; Gal. iii. 11; Heb. x. 38.

³⁹ Rom. ii. 13; Eph. vi. 9; Col. iii. 25; 1 Pet. i. 17; Deut. x. 17.

⁴⁰ Eph. iv. 5, 6.

⁴¹ 1 Cor. x. 23.

⁴² See 1 Cor. ix. 5.

⁴³ See vers. 4, 9-18.

⁴⁴ In occasionem.

⁴⁵ Sibi, "themselves," i.e., mutually. See 1 Cor. vii. 32-35.

⁴⁶ Matt. v. 28. See de Idol., cc. ii. xxiii.; de Paen., c. iii.; de Cult. Fem., l. ii. c. ii.; de Pa., c. vi.

⁴⁷ But compare, or rather, contrast, herewith, ad Ux., l. i. cc. ii. iii.

⁴⁸ Comp. ad Ux., l. i. c. viii.; c. i. above; and de Virg. Vel., c. x.

⁴⁹ Comp. ad Ux., l. i. c. v. ad fin.

⁵⁰ Dimisisti, al. amisisti = "you have lost."

⁵¹ Or, "amass" - negotiaberis. See Luke xix. 15.

⁵² Comp. 1 Tim. iv. 15.

⁵³ Placet sibi.

⁵⁴ See 1 Cor. vii. 5.

⁵⁵ i.e., guilty.

⁵⁶ See Lev. xi. 44, 45, xix. 2, xx. 7, LXX. and Vulg.

⁵⁷ See Ps. xviii. 25, 26, esp. in Vulg. and LXX., where it is xvii. 26, 27.

⁵⁸ See Eph. iv. 1; Col. i. 10; 1 Thess. ii. 12.

⁵⁹ See Rom. viii. 5, 6, esp. in Vulg.

⁶⁰ A Marcionite prophetess, also called Priscilla.

⁶¹ Comp. herewith, ad Ux., l. i. c. iv.

⁶² Or "purses."

⁶³ Comp. 2 Tim. ii. 3, 4; Heb. ii. 10.

⁶⁴ Or "age" - saeculo. Comp. Ps. xxxix. 12 (in LXX. xxxviii. 13, as in Vulg.) and Heb. xi. 13.

⁶⁵ Comp. Matt. vi. 34; Jas. iv. 13-15.

⁶⁶ Comp. Phil. i. 23.

⁶⁷ Aegium (Jos. Scaliger, in Oehler).

⁶⁸ But Tertullian overlooks the fact that both Ovid and Virgil represent her as more than willing to marry Aeneas. [Why should he note the fables of poets? This testimony of a Carthaginian is historic evidence of the fact.]

⁶⁹ Comp. Matt. xxii. 29, 30; Mark xii. 24, 25; Luke xx. 34-36.

⁷⁰ Chap. Vi. Vol. iii. P. 672, this series.

⁷¹ Hooker, Eccl. Polity, b. iii. Cap. i. 14.

¹ [Written against orthodoxy, say circa a.d. 208. But see Elucidation I.].

² Gal. v. 17.

³ In aevum; eij ton aiwna (LXX.); in aeternum (Vulg.).

⁴ Gen. vi. 3.

⁵ Comp. 1 Cor. xi. 2; 2 Thess. ii. 15, iii. 6. Comp. the Gr. text and the Vulg. in locis.

⁶ See Matt. xi. 30.

⁷ John xvi. 12, 13. Tertullian's rendering is not verbatim.

⁸ See John xvi. 14.

⁹ See Matt. xix. 12. Comp. de. Pa., c. xiii.; de. Cult. Fem., l. ii. c. ix.

¹⁰ See 1 Cor. vii. 1, 7, 37, 40; and comp. de Ex. Cast., c. iv.

¹¹ 1 Cor. vii. 29.

¹² 1 Cor. vii. 32-34.

¹³ Comp. ad Ux., l. i. c. iii.; de Cult. Fem., l. ii. c. x. sub fin.; and de Ex. Cast., c. iii., which agrees nearly verbatim with what follows.

¹⁴ 1 Cor. vii. 7, only the Greek is qelw, not boulomai.

¹⁵ 1 John ii. 6.

¹⁶ 1 John iii. 3.

¹⁷ There is no such passage in any Epistle of St. John. There is one similar in 1 Pet. i. 15.

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