Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xxx Pg 16.2
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.i Pg 8.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xxx Pg 16.3
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 194.1
Anf-03 v.iii.xxv Pg 11
2 Tim. ii. 2.
Now, if they refuse to allow that the church is meant by these “many witnesses,” it matters nothing, since nothing could have been secret which was produced “before many witnesses.” Nor, again, must the circumstance of his having wished him to “commit these things to faithful men, who should be able to teach others also,”2124 2124
Anf-03 v.iii.xxv Pg 12
2 Tim. ii. 2.
be construed into a proof of there being some occult gospel. For, when he says “these things,” he refers to the things of which he is writing at the moment. In reference, however, to occult subjects, he would have called them, as being absent, those things, not these things, to one who had a joint knowledge of them with himself.2125 2125 Apud conscientiam. [Clement of Alexandria is to be interpreted by Tertullian, with whom he does not essentially differ. For Clement’s Esoteric Doctrine (See Vol. II. pp. 302, 313, etc.) is defined as perfecting the type of the Christian by the strong meat of Truth, of which the entire deposit is presupposed as common to all Christians. We must not blame Clement for the abuse of his teaching by perverters of Truth itself.]
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 3
VERSE (14) - 2Ti 1:13; 2:2
