101 Matt. iii. 7-12, xxi. 23, 31, 32.
102 Mark ii. 8; 1 Thess. iv. 8; 2 Cor. i. 21, 22, v. 5.
103 John xvi. 6, 7.
104 Acts xix. 1-7, [John vii. 39.]
105 Matt. iii. 11, 12; John i. 6-36.
106 Matt xi. 2-6; Luke vii. 18-23. [He repeats this view.]
107 Acts xix. 4.
109 Mark i. 4.
110 Luke i. 76.
111 John iii. 30, 31, briefly quoted.
112 Matt. iii. 11, not quite exactly given.
113 John iv. 2.
114 For instances of this, compare Matt. viii. 5 with Luke vii. 3, 7; and Mark x. 35 with Matt. xx. 20.
115 Cf. 1 Pet. i. 11, ad fin.
117 John iii. 5, not fully given.
118 See Gal. iii. 27.
119 See Eph. iv. 5.
120 "Volenti," which Oehler notes as a suggestion of Fr. Junius, is adopted here in prefrence to Oehler's "nolenti."
122 Exerta. Comp. c. xviii. sub init.; ad Ux. ii. c. 1. sub fin.
123 Matt. xi. 11, e0gh/gertai ommited.
124 Matt. viii. 24, xiv. 28, 29. [Our author seems to allow that sprinkling is baptism, but not Christian baptism: a very curious passage. Compare the foot-washing, John xiii. 8.]
128 Lavacrum. [John xiii. 9, 10, as above.]
129 i.e. of being the first to be chosen.
130 Luke xviii. 42; Mark x. 52.
131 "Remittentur" is Oehler's reading; "remittuntur" others read; but the Greek is in perfect tense. See Mark ii. 5.
132 i.e. faith, or perhaps the "compendious grace of baptism."
133 Matt. ix. 9.
135 Luke ix. 59, 60; but it is not said there that the man did it.
136 Matt. x. 37.
137 i.e. probably the Cainites. See c. ii.
138 i.e. the sacrament, or obligation of faith. See beginning of chapter.
139 Matt. xxviii. 19: "all" ommited.
140 John ii. 5: "shall not" for "cannot;" "kingdom of the heavens"-an expression only occurring in Matthew-for "kingdom of God."
141 i.e. from the time when the Lord gave the "law."
142 i.e. not till after the "law" had been made.
143 See Acts ix. 1-31.
144 1 Cor. i. 17.
146 1 Cor. i. 11, 12, iii. 3, 4.
147 Matt. v. 9; referred to in de Patien. c. ii.
148 Oehler refers us to c. xii. above, "He who hath once bathed."
149 i.e. the Epistle to the Ephesians especially.
150 Eph. iv. 4, 5, 6, but very inexactly quoted.
151 i.e. us Christians; of "Catholics," as Oehler explains it.
152 i.e. touching the "one baptism."
153 Ademptio communicationis. [See Bunsen, Hippol. III. p. 114, Canon 46.]
154 Comp. Eccles. i. 15.
157 In John xiii. 10, and Eph. iv. 5.
158 Lavacrum. [See Aquinas, Quaest. lxvi. 11.]
159 Luke xii. 50, not given in full.
160 1 John v. 6.
161 Matt. xx. 16; Rev. xvii. 14.
162 John xix. 34. See c. ix. ad fin.
163 See John vi. 53, etc.
164 Lavacrum. [The three baptisims: fluminis, flaminis, sanguinis.]
166 Summus sacerdos. Compare de Orat. xxviii., "nos...veri sacerdotes," etc.: and de Ex. Cast. c. vii., "nonne et laici sacerdotes sumus?"
169 i.e. the powers of administering baptism and "sowing the word." [i.e. "The Keys." Scorpiace, p. 643.]
171 1 Cor. x. 23, where moi in the recieved thxt seems interpolated.
172 Or, as Oehler explains it, of your power of baptizing, etc.
174 Evenerit. Perhaps Tertullian means literally-though that sense of the word is very rare-"shall issue out of her," alluding to his "pariet" above.
176 The allusion is to a spurious work entitled Acta Pauli et Thecloe. [Of which afterwards. But see Jones, on the Canon, II. p. 353, and Lardner, Credibility, II. p. 305.]