Tertullian

Name: Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Tertullian: Part Fourth, Appendix, Five Books in Reply to Marcion — Chapter 3
Author: Tertullian

Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Tertullian… (1885)

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“Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Tertullian: Part Fourth, Appendix, Five Books in Reply to Marcion — Chapter 3”, published in 1885, is a work by Tertullian. It explores elements such as Elisha, Oehler and orb.

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Tertullian, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Tertullian… (1885)

“ Noble Elijah, (memorable fact!)
Was rapt; [47] who hath not tasted yet death’s dues;
Since to the orb he is to come again.
195 His faith unbroken, then, chastening with stripes
People and frenzied king, (who did desert
The Lord’s best service) , and with bitter flames
The foes, shut up the stars; kept in the clouds
The rain; showed all collectively that God
200 Is; made their error patent;—for a flame,
Coming with force from heaven at his prayers,
Ate up the victim’s parts, dripping with flood,
Upon the altar: [48] —often as he willed,
So often from on high rushed fire ”

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Tertullian, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Tertullian… (1885)

“ The reference is to the fact, on which such special stress is laid, of the Lord’s “speaking to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh with his friend.” See especially Num. xii. 5–8, Deut. xxxiv. 9–12, with Deut. xviii. 17–19, Acts iii. 22, 23, vii. 37.↑ The Latin in Oehler and Migne is thus: “Acceptam legem per paucos fudit in orbem;” and the reference seems to me to be to Ex. xxxii. 15–20, though the use of “orbem” for “ground” is perhaps strange; but “humum” would have been against the metre, if that argument be of any weight in the case of a writer so prolific of false quantities. ”

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“ Moses, leader of the People, (he
60 Who, spurning briefly—blooming riches, left
The royal thresholds,) rather chose to bear
His people’s toils, afflicted, with bowed neck,
By no threats daunted, than to gain himself
Enjoyments, and of many penalties
65 Remission: admirable for such faith
And love, he, with God’s virtue armed, achieved
Great exploits: smote the nation through with plagues;
And left their land behind, and their hard king
Confounds, and leads the People back; trod waves;
70 Sunk the foes down in waters; through a “tree” [15]
Made ever-bitter waters sweet ”

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“ As to be father to believing tribes
And peoples. Jacob with the patriarchs
(Himself their patriarch) through all his own
45 Life’s space the gladdest times of Christ foresang
By words, act, virtue, toil. ”

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“ Elisha was, succeeding to his lot: [51]
Who begged to take to him Elijah’s lot [52]
210 In double measure; so, with forceful stripe,
The People to chastise: [53] such and so great
A love for the Lord’s cause he breathed. He smote
Through Jordan; made his feet a way, and crossed
Again; raised with a twig the axe down—sunk
215 Beneath the stream; changed into vital meat
The deathful food; detained a second time,
Double in length, [54] the rains; cleansed leprosies; [55]
Entangled foes in darkness ”

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“ I suspect we should read “via,” quantity being of no importance with our author, and take “prætestata” as passive: “The way of life was testified before, and proved, through him.”↑ This seems to be the meaning, and the reference will then be to Jer. xxxiv. 8–22 (in LXX. xli. 8–22) ; but the punctuation both in Oehler and Migne makes nonsense, and I have therefore altered it.↑ See the apocryphal “Susanna.”↑ For “servatisque palam cunctis in pace quievit,” which the edd. ”

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“ The “faces” are probably the wicks.↑ “Scilicet hoc testamen erat virtutis imago.”↑ The text as it stands is, in Oehler:— ...“Hic Baal Christi victoria signo Extemplo refugam devicit femina ligno;” which I would read:— ...“Hunc Jael, Christi victoriæ signo, Extemplo,” etc.↑ For “hic” I would incline to read “huic.”↑ i.e., child.↑ i.e., instead of.↑ i.e., to his unshorn Nazarite locks.↑ Viros ostendere Christos.↑ See 1 Sam. xxviii. (in LXX. 1 Kings) 11–19.↑ i.e., to whom, to David.↑ “Ex utero:” a curious expression for a man ”

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“ This may mean, (a) as in our text; (b) by his apostolically-minded writings—writings like an apostle’s; or (c) by the apostolic writings, i.e., by the mention made of him, supposing him to be the same, in Phil. iv. 3.↑ Legem.↑ Legis.↑ Germine frater.↑ An allusion to the well-known Pastor or Shepherd of Hermas.↑ Our author makes the name Anicetus. Rig. (as quoted by Oehler) observes that a comparison of the list of bishops of Rome here given with that given by Tertullian in de Præscr., c. ”

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