26 Conjecturam.

27 Tam...quam.

28 Scilicet.

29 Argumentari: in the sense of argutari.

30 Naviter nobis patrocinatur.

31 Gen. i. 1.

32 Gen. i. 3, etc.

33 Cognominatur: as if by way of surname, Deus Dominus.

34 Gen. ii. 15.

35 Gen. ii. 16.

36 Et ego.

37 Extrema linea. Rhenanus sees in this phrase a slur against Hermogenes, who was an artist. Tertullian, Isuppose, meant that Hermogenes was extremely ignorant.

38 Experimenta.

39 Libera: and so not a possible subject for the Lordship of God.

40 Matter having, by the hypothesis, been independent of God, and so incapable of giving Him any title to Lordship.

41 Fuit hoc utique. In Hermogenes' own opinion, which is thus shown to have been contradictory to itself, and so absurd.

42 Quod, with the subjunctive comparet.

43 Census.

44 Sculicet.

45 1 Cor. viii. 5.

46 Apud nos.

47 The property of being eternal.

48 Unicum sit necesse est.

49 Censetur.

50 Comparationi.

51 Ratio.

52 Auctrix.

53 Statim si.

54 Totum Dei.

55 Ps. lxxxii. 6.

56 Ver. I.

57 Hermogenes.

58 Ordinem: or course.

59 Quale autem est: "how comes it to pass that."

60 Isa. xlv. 23.

61 Isa. xli. 4, xliv. 6, xlviii. 12.

62 Ordo.

63 Isa. xliv. 24.

64 Salvum egro erit.

65 Recensentur.

66 Nec natus omnino.

67 Of course, according to Hermogenes, whom Tertullian refutes with an argumentum ad hominem.

68 Aderit utrobique.

69 That is, having no God superior to themselves.

70 Hermogenes.

71 Atquin etiam.

72 Ex illa usus est.

73 De cujus utitur.

74 Praestat.

75 Itaque.

76 Quidem.

77 Revera.

78 Sane.

79 They are so deemed in the de Proescript. Hoeret. c. vii.

80 We have rather paraphrased the word "precario"-"obtained by prayer." [See p. 456.]

81 Domino: opposed to "precario."

82 Ideo...ut.

83 Mediocritatis.

84 Tali: i.e. potestate.

85 Jam ergo: introducing an argumentum ad hominem against Hermogenes.

86 Quia dominator.

87 Ergo.

88 Aut precario: "as having begged for it."

89 Precario: See above, note 2, p. 482.

90 De is often in Tertullian the sign of an instrumental noun.

91 Optima.

92 Bona fide.

93 Audiat.

94 De mali ratione.

95 Hac sua injectione. See our Anti-Marcion, iv. i., for this word, p. 345.

96 Assentator. Fr. Junius suggests "adsectator" of the stronger meaning "promoter;" nor does Oehler object.

97 Adversum semetisum.

98 Male: in reference to His alleged complicity with evil.

99 Et tamen.

100 Definimus.

101 Competere illi.


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