Tertullian

“ Fruit-bearing boughs put forth procurvant arms.
The fourth day, with [9] the sun’s lamp generates
The moon, and moulds the stars with tremulous light
20 Radiant: these elements it [10] gave as signs
To th’ underlying world, [11] to teach the times
Which, through their rise and setting, were to change. ”

“ If this, which is Oehler’s and Migne’s reading, be correct, the words gelida and incanduit seem to be intentionally contrasted, unless incandescere be used here in a supposed sense of “growing white,” “turning pale.” Urere is used in Latin of heat and cold indifferently. Calida would, of course, be a ready emendation ”

“ It may be an allusion to the “flaming sword” (see Gen. iii. 24) ; or it may mean the top of the flame.↑ Or, “origins”—“orsis”—because Cain and Abel were original types, as it were, of two separate classes of men.↑ “Perpetuo;” “in process of time,” Eng. ver. ”

“ So Job (xiv. 19) , “The waters wear the stones.”↑ “Onyx,” Eng. ver. See the following piece, l. 277.↑ “Bdellium,” Eng. Ver.; ἄνθραξ, LXX.↑ Comp. Ps. xxix. 3, especially in “Great Bible” (xxviii. 3 in LXX.) ↑ Malum.↑ Mali.↑ “Numquid poma Deus non omnia nota sacravit?”↑ Mundus.↑ The writer, supposing it to be night (see 88, 89) , seems to mean that the serpent hinted that the fruit would instantly dispel night and restore day. ”