181 Sensu.

182 Nedum.

183 Proinde.

184 On this version of Ps. xlv. 1., and its application by Tertullian, see our Anti-Marcion (p. 299, note 5).

185 John i. 1.

186 John x. 30.

187 Nisi quod.

188 Originale instrumentum: which may mean "the document which treats of the origin of all things."

189 Principium.

190 Corpulentum.

191 Gen. i. 1.

192 Substantivum aliquid.

193 De cetero.

194 Non ab re tamen.

195 Illam...quae.

196 Condidit: "created."

197 Prov. viii. 22.

198 In qua: in Wisdom.

199 Wisdom.

200 De cogitatu.

201 Species facti.

202 Proinde.

203 John i. 1.

204 Gen. i. 1.

205 John i. 1-3.

206 Plane.

207 Dum ostenditur: which Oehler and Rigalt. construe as "donec ostendatur." One reading has "dum non ostenditur," "so long as it is not shown."

208 Ea conditione.

209 In totum habebat intelligi.

210 Gen. i. 11, 12.

211 Gen. i. 20, 21.

212 Ver. 24.

213 Quid unde protulerit: properly a double question = "what was produced, and whence?"

214 Unde unde...dumne.

215 Quid unde processerit: properly a double question = "what was produced, and whence?"

216 Gen. i. 1.

217 Adoro: reverently admire.

218 John i. 3.

219 Officina.

220 Rev. xxii. 18, 19.

221 Gen. i. 2.

222 Redigit in.

223 Inconditam: we have combined the two senses of the word.

224 Tale aliquid.

225 Plane: ironical.

226 Articulos.

227 Nec utique.

228 Communicare.

229 We have construed Oehler's reading: "Quanto non comparet" (i.e., by a frequent ellipse of Tertullian, "quanto magis non comparet"). Fr. Junius, however, suspects that instead of "quanto" we should read "quando": this would produce the sense, "since it is not apparent to what object it may be ascribed," etc.

230 Nominatam.

231 Cognominatam.

232 Gen. i. 2.

233 Quae cui nomen terrae accommodare debeat. This is literally a double question, asking about the fitness of the name, and to which earth it is best adapted.

234 He means those who have gone wrong on the eternity of matter.

235 Proinde.

236 A mixed metal, of the colour of amber.

237 Gen. i. 31.

238 Gen. i. 1.

239 Qualitatem ejus: unless this means "how He made it," like the "qualiter fecerit" below.

240 Gen. i. 1.

241 Gen. i. 7.

242 Ver. 8.

243 Gen. i. 27.

244 Gen. ii. 7.

245 Utique.

246 Prosequi.

247 Primo praefari, postea prosequi; nominare, deinde describere.

248 Alioquin.

249 Hermogenes, whose view of the narrative is criticised.

250 Integer.

251 Autem.

252 Gen. i. 1, 2.

253 Cum maxime edixerat.

254 The "autem" of the note just before this.

255 Fibula.

256 Alligat sensum.


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