420 Ut quae fabricatur, inquis, a Deo.
421 Lineis. Tertullian often refers to Hermogenes' profession of painting.
431 Speciatum: ei0dopihqe/n, "arranged in specific forms."
433 Inornatae: unfurnished with forms of beauty.
436 From which he has digressed since ch. xxxvi., p. 497.
441 In loco facis: "you localise."
444 Cum corpori accedunt: or, "when they are added to a body."
445 Loca: "places;" one to each.
446 Cum ab utraque regione suspendis: equally far from good and evil.
456 Compositionem: "arrangement."
457 See above, ch. xxxvii. p. 498.
464 Dan. iii. 21.
466 John i. 3.
467 Spiritu Ipsius: "by His Spirit." See Ps. xxxiii. 6.
468 Isa. xlviii. 13.
469 Ps. cii. 25.
470 Isa. xl. 12 and xlviii. 13.
471 Jer. li. 15.
472 Ps. lxiv. 7.
476 Rom. i. 20.
479 Rom. xi. 34.
1 Occultant. [This tract may be assigned to any date not earlier than a.d. 207. Of this Valentinus, see cap. iv. infra, and de Proescript. capp. 29, 30, supra.]
2 We are far from certain whether we have caught the sense of the original, which we add, that the reader may judge for himself, and at the same time observe the terseness of our author: "Custodiae officium conscientiae officium est, confusio praedicatur, dum religio asseveratur."
5 Epoptas: see Suidas, s.v. 'Epo/ptai.