Anf-03 v.iii.vii Pg 11
“De enthymesi;” for this word Tertullian gives animationem (in his tract against Valentinus, ix.), which seems to mean, “the mind in operation.” (See the same treatise, x. xi.) With regard to the other word, Jerome (on Amos. iii.) adduces Valentinus as calling Christ ἔκτρωμα, that is, abortion.
Unhappy Aristotle! who invented for these men dialectics, the art of building up and pulling down; an art so evasive in its propositions,1920 1920 Sententiis.
so far-fetched in its conjectures, so harsh, in its arguments, so productive of contentions—embarrassing1921 1921 Molestam.
even to itself, retracting everything, and really treating of1922 1922 Tractaverit, in the sense of conclusively settling.
nothing! Whence spring those “fables and endless genealogies,”1923 1923
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 3
VERSE (6) - Jer 4:5; 6:1 Eze 33:3 Ho 5:8 Zep 1:16
