Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.viii Pg 6.1
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.v Pg 11.1
Anf-02 iv.ii.ii.xxxv Pg 10.1
Anf-03 v.ix.xxxiii Pg 28
See Bull’s Works, Vol. V., p. 381.
I value it chiefly because it proves that the Greek Testament, elsewhere says, disjointedly, what is collected into 1 John v. 7. It is, therefore, Holy Scripture in substance, if not in the letter. What seems to me important, however, is the balance it gives to the whole context, and the defective character of the grammar and logic, if it be stricken out. In the Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate of the Old Testament we have a precisely similar case. Refer to Psa. xiii., alike in the Latin and the Greek, as compared with our English Version.8214 8214
Anf-03 v.ix.xxxiii Pg 28
See Bull’s Works, Vol. V., p. 381.
I value it chiefly because it proves that the Greek Testament, elsewhere says, disjointedly, what is collected into 1 John v. 7. It is, therefore, Holy Scripture in substance, if not in the letter. What seems to me important, however, is the balance it gives to the whole context, and the defective character of the grammar and logic, if it be stricken out. In the Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate of the Old Testament we have a precisely similar case. Refer to Psa. xiii., alike in the Latin and the Greek, as compared with our English Version.8214 8214
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.viii Pg 6.1
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xlii Pg 32
Isa. i. 8.
With what constancy has He also, in Psalm xxx., laboured to present to us the very Christ! He calls with a loud voice to the Father, “Into Thine hands I commend my spirit,”5151 5151
Anf-01 ix.vii.xiii Pg 5
Isa. lvii. 16.
Thus does he attribute the Spirit as peculiar to God which in the last times He pours forth upon the human race by the adoption of sons; but [he shows] that breath was common throughout the creation, and points it out as something created. Now what has been made is a different thing from him who makes it. The breath, then, is temporal, but the Spirit eternal. The breath, too, increases [in strength] for a short period, and continues for a certain time; after that it takes its departure, leaving its former abode destitute of breath. But when the Spirit pervades the man within and without, inasmuch as it continues there, it never leaves him. “But that is not first which is spiritual,” says the apostle, speaking this as if with reference to us human beings; “but that is first which is animal, afterwards that which is spiritual,”4534 4534
Anf-03 iv.xi.xi Pg 6
Tertullian’s reading of Isa. lvii. 16.
And again: “He giveth breath unto the people that are on the earth, and Spirit to them that walk thereon.”1565 1565
Anf-03 v.v.xxxii Pg 14
Flatum: “breath;” so LXX. of Isa. lvii. 16.
In like manner the same Wisdom says of the waters, “Also when He made the fountains strong, things which6468 6468 Fontes, quæ.
are under the sky, I was fashioning6469 6469 Modulans.
them along with Him.”6470 6470
Anf-03 v.iv.v.x Pg 10
Mic. vii. 18, 19.
Now, if nothing of this sort had been predicted of Christ, I should find in the Creator examples of such a benignity as would hold out to me the promise of similar affections also in the Son of whom He is the Father. I see how the Ninevites obtained forgiveness of their sins from the Creator3769 3769
Anf-01 ix.iv.xvii Pg 41
Hab. iii. 2.
Paul also says: “But when the fulness of time came, God sent forth His Son.”3603 3603
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxii Pg 49
Hab. iii. 2, according to the Septuagint. St. Augustine similarly applied this passage, De Civit. Dei, ii. 32.
These likewise did Zechariah see under the figure of the two olive trees and olive branches.4366 4366
Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 62
Ps. xlv. 3, 4.
And whatever other things of a like nature are spoken regarding Him, these indicated that beauty and splendour which exist in His kingdom, along with the transcendent and pre-eminent exaltation [belonging] to all who are under His sway, that those who hear might desire to be found there, doing such things as are pleasing to God. Again, there are those who say, “He is a man, and who shall know him?”4303 4303
Anf-01 viii.iv.xxxviii Pg 0
Anf-02 iv.ii.ii.x Pg 3.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.xv Pg 5.1
Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 34
Ps. xlv. 4 (xliv. 5 in LXX.).
Who will ply the sword without practising the contraries to lenity and justice; that is, guile, and asperity, and injustice, proper (of course) to the business of battles? See we, then, whether that which has another action be not another sword,—that is, the Divine word of God, doubly sharpened1279 1279
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xiv Pg 6
Ps. xlv. 4.
But who shall produce these results with the sword, and not their opposites rather—deceit, and harshness, and injury—which, it must be confessed, are the proper business of battles? Let us see, therefore, whether that is not some other sword, which has so different an action. Now the Apostle John, in the Apocalypse, describes a sword which proceeded from the mouth of God as “a doubly sharp, two-edged one.”3290 3290
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xiv Pg 12
Ps. xlv. 4, but changed.
even the might of Thy spiritual grace, whereby the knowledge of Christ is spread. “Thine arrows are sharp;”3296 3296
Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.x Pg 4.1
Anf-01 ii.ii.lii Pg 4
Ps. l. 14, 15.
For “the sacrifice of God is a broken spirit.”235 235
Anf-01 ix.vi.xviii Pg 8
Ps. l. 14, 15.
rejecting, indeed, those things by which sinners imagined they could propitiate God, and showing that He does Himself stand in need of nothing; but He exhorts and advises them to those things by which man is justified and draws nigh to God. This same declaration does Esaias make: “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? saith the Lord. I am full.”4014 4014
Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xvii Pg 7.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiv Pg 6.1
Anf-03 v.viii.xxx Pg 1
Chapter XXX.—This Vision Interpreted by Tertullian of the Resurrection of the Bodies of the Dead. A Chronological Error of Our Author, Who Supposes that Ezekiel in His Ch. XXXI. Prophesied Before the Captivity.
