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Tertullian: Against Marcion, Books I–V
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Book V. Wherein Tertullian proves, with respect to St. Paul's epistles, what he had proved in the preceding book with respect to St. Luke's gospel. Far from being at variance, they were in perfect unison with the writings of the Old Testament, and therefore testified that the Creator was the only God, and that the Lord Jesus was his Christ. As in the preceding books, Tertullian supports his argument with profound reasoning, and many happy illustrations of Holy Scripture. — Translator and historical edition notes (part 7)
Ps. lxxii. 15 .
Ps. lxxii. 10 .
See Otto’s Justin Martyr , ii. 273, n. 23. [See Vol. I. p. 238, supra .]
Videlicet.
The Creatori here answers to the Scripturis divinis of the parallel passage in adv. Judæos . Of course there is a special force in this use of the Creator’s name here against Marcion.
Isa. i. 10 .
Ezek. xvi. 3 .
To the sins of these nations.
Isa. i. 2 .
Apud illum, i.e., Creatorem.
Maledictionis.
Ps. xlv. 3 .
Ps. xlv. 2 .
Literally, “Advance, and prosper, and reign.”
Ps. xlv. 4 .
Rev. i. 16 .
Eph. vi. 14–17 .
Matt. x. 34 .
“Advance, and prosper, and reign.”
Exinde qua.
Ps. xlv. 4 , but changed.
Ps. xlv. 5 .
Traductiones.
Ps. xlv. 5 .
Ejusmodi.
Exempla.
Interim.
1 Cor. viii. 5 .
Ex dispositione. This word seems to mean what is implied in the phrases, “Christian dispensation ,” “Mosaic dispensation ,” etc.
Consignatur.
Proprietatibus.
Quintilian, Inst . viii. 6, defines this as a figure “which lends a name to things which have it not.”
De alieno abutendo.
Matt. ix. 16, 17 .
Senio.
Passio.
Adversus Creatorem, in sui Dei nomine venientes.
i.e., to the Marcionite position.
That is, Christ.
Surely it is Duo , not Deo .
Constare.
Incipit vocari.
Secundum populum.
Vir.
Non celavit te, “not concealed Himself from you.”
Ex. xxiii. 20, 21 .
Officium prophetæ.
Sacramentum.
Identidem.
Reliquus ordo.
Obduximus.
Corpusculum illud.
Habitum.
Conspectum.
Puerulus, “little child,” perhaps.
Sentences out of Isa. lii. 14 and liii. 2 , etc.
Isa. lii. 14 .
Ps. xlv. 2 .
Ps. xxii. 6 .
Isa. xi. 1, 2 .
Intentionem.
Isa. liii. 3, 7 .
Momentaneum.
Actum.
Prædicationis.
Interim.
Isa. l. 10 .
Isa. liii. 4 .
Compare adv. Judæos , chap. 10. [pp. 165, 166, supra .]
De exitu.
Compare Deut. xxi. 23 with Gal. iii. 13 .
The words “quia et alias antecedit rerum probatio rationem,” seem to refer to the parallel passage in adv. Judæos , where he has described the Jewish law of capital punishment, and argued for the exemption of Christ from its terms. He begins that paragraph with saying, “Sed hujus maledictionis sensum antecedit rerum ratio.” [See, p. 164, supra .]
Perhaps rationale or procedure.
Edocebo.
Magis obumbrandum.
But he may mean, by “ ne demorer cursum ,” “that I may not obstruct the course of the type,” by taking off attention from its true force. In the parallel place, however, another turn is given to the sense; Joseph is a type, “ even on this ground —that I may but briefly allude to it—that he suffered,” etc.
Deut. xxxiii. 17 .
Census.
Gen. xlix. 6 . The last clause is, “ceciderunt nervos tauro.”
Vanum.
Spectaculum salutare.
Ps. xcvi. 10 , with a ligno added.
Lignarium aliquem regem.
Isa. ix. 6 .
Isa. ix. 6 .
Jer. xi. 19 .
The twenty-second Psalm. A.V .
Canentis.
Ps. xxii. 16 .
Hæretica duritia.
Passionum, literally sufferings , which would hardly give the sense.
Nisi.
Quo magis erubescat.
Et—et—et.
Isa. liii. 12 .
Both His own and His people’s.
Comp. adv. Judæos , 11 and 12.
Ea paria.
Evenire.
Ps. ii. 7 .
Isa. xlii. 6, 7 .
Isa. lv. 4, 5 .
Isa. lv. 3 .
Censum. [Kaye, p. 149.]
Ventris, “womb.”
Ps. cxxxii. 11 .
He treats “body” as here meaning womb .
Ipsius.
Floruit ex.
Viro deputare.
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 .
He here again makes bowels synonymous with womb .
Magis.
Habendus in.
In 1 Kings xi. 14 , “the Lord ” is said to have done this. Comp. 2 Sam. xxiv. 1 with 1 Chron. xxi. i.
i.e., the Jews.
Or perhaps, “are found to belong to the Creator’s Christ, not to Marcion’s.”
Marcion denied that there was any prophecy of national or Gentile conversion; it was only the conversion of individual proselytes that he held.
Allectio.
Exorta est.
Isa. ii. 2, 3 .
Sibynas, Σιβύνη· ὅπλον δόρατι παραπλήσιον . Hesychius, “ Sibynam appellant Illyrii telum venabuli simile.” Paulus, ex Festo , p. 336, Müll. (Oehler.)
Isa. ii. 4 .
Allectio.
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.”
Isa. lii. 7 and Rom. x. 15 .
Ps. xix. 5 .
Pamelius regards this as a quotation from Isa. xlvi. 12, 13 , only put narratively , in order to indicate briefly its realization.
Atquin.
Isa. lii. 11 .
Universæ.
Comp. Ps. ii. 2, 3, with Acts iv. 25–30 .
Exprobrat.
Isa. lvii. 1 .
Wisd. of Sol. ii. 12 .
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 .): ὁ δὲ ᾽Ακύλας καὶ Θεοδοτίων φασι. Σημείωσις τοῦ Θαῦ ἐπὶ τὰ μέτωπα, κ.τ.λ . Origen, in his own remarks, refers to the sign of the cross , as indicated by this letter. Ed. Bened. (by Migne), iii. 802.
[Ambiguous, according to Kaye, p. 304, may mean a transition from Paganism to true Christianity.]
Ps. xxii. 22, 25 .
Ps. lxviii. 26 .
Mal. i. 10, 11 .
[Kaye remarks that traditions of practice , unlike the traditions of doctrine, may be varied according to times and circumstances. See p. 286.]
Isa. ii. 20 .
Architectum, Isa. iii. 1–3 , abridged.
Isa. v. 6, 7 .
Isa. lii. 5 .
Compare Adv. Judæos , 13, p. 171, for a like statement.
Isa. i. 7, 8 .
Isa. i. 3, 4 .
Isa. i. 20 .
Ps. lix. 11 .
Exustionem.
Isa. l. 11 .
Defensus, perhaps “claimed.”
See Isa. liii. 9 .
Certe.
Compare a passage in the Apology , chap. xxi. p. 34, supra .
Jam vero.
Admiserit per.
Hoc affectavit.
Plane.
Immo.
Apud inferos.
Placatus.
See below, in book iv. chap. iv.
Ita ut describitur, i.e., in the literal sense.
Persequi.
Allegorica.
Digestum.
On the Hope of the Faithful. This work, which is not extant (although its title appears in one of the oldest mss. of Tertullian, 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).
Otiosum.
[See Kaye’s important Comment. p. 345.]
Rev. xxi. 2 .
Gal. iv. 26 .
Phil. iii. 20 , “our conversation,” A.V .
Deputat.
Ezek. xlviii. 30–35 .
Rev. xxi. 10–23 .
That is, the Montanist . [Regarded as conclusive; but not conclusive evidence of an accomplished lapse from Catholic Communion.]
He means that of Severus against the Parthians. Tertullian is the only author who mentions this prodigy.
Evanescente.
Et alias de proximo nullam: or “de proximo” may mean, “on a near approach.”
Ratio.
Apud: or, “in the dispensation of the Creator.”
Dispositionis.
Gen. xxvii. 28 .