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Chapter II.—God Himself an Example of Patience.
To us9020
no human
affectation of canine9021
| 9021 i.e. cynical =
κυνικός = doglike. But
Tertullian appears to use “caninæ” purposely, and I
have therefore retained it rather than substitute (as Mr. Dodgson does)
“cynical.” | equanimity,
modelled9022
| 9022 i.e. the
affectation is modelled by insensibility. | by insensibility,
furnishes the warrant for exercising patience; but the divine
arrangement of a living and celestial discipline, holding up before us
God Himself in the
very first place as an example of patience; who scatters equally over
just and unjust the bloom of this light; who suffers the good offices
of the seasons, the services of the elements, the tributes of entire
nature, to accrue at once to worthy and unworthy; bearing with the most
ungrateful nations, adoring as they do the toys of the arts and
the works of their own hands, persecuting His Name together with His
family; bearing with luxury, avarice, iniquity, malignity,
waxing insolent daily:9023
so that by His own
patience He disparages Himself; for the cause why many believe not in
the Lord is that they are so long without knowing9024
| 9024 Because they see no
visible proof of it. | that He is wroth with the world.9025
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