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On Repentance
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  • Chapter I.-Of Heathen Repentance.
  1: [We pass from the polemical class of our author's writings to those of a practical and ethical cha[...]
  2: "Offensa senteniae pejoris;" or possibly, "the miscarriage of some," etc.
  3: Thesaurus.
  4: Saeculo. [Erasmus doubted the genuineness of this treatise, partly because of the comparative puri[...]


  • Chapter II.-True Repentance a Thing Divine, Originated by God, and Subject to His Laws.
  5: Saeculi dote. With which he had been endowed. Comp. Gen. i. 28, Ps. viii. 4-8.
  6: i.e., man.
  7: Orbi.
  8: Componeret.
  9: Comp. Matt. iii. 1, 2; Mark i. 4; Luke iii. 4-6.
  10: i.e., man's salvation.
  11: See the latter part of c. i.
  12: Viderit.
  13: Or, "defending."


  • Chapter III.-Sins May Be Divided into Corporeal and Spiritual. Both Equally Subject, If Not to Human, Yet to Divine Investigation and Punishment
  14: [Without reference to Luthor's theory of justification, we must all adopt this as the test of "a s[...]
  15: Luke xxii. 61.
  16: Or, "briefly to lay down the rule."
  17: i.e., in the judgment-day. Compare the phrase "that day and that hour" in Scripture.
  18: Mediocritas.
  19: Praevaricatorem: comp. ad Ux. b. ii. c. ii. ad init.
  20: Matt. v. 27, 28; comp. de Idol. ii.


  • Chapter IV.-Repentance Applicable to All the Kinds of Sin. To Be Practised Not Only, Nor Chiefly, for the Good It Brings, But Because God Commands It.
  21: Comp. Ezek. xviii. 30, 32.
  22: The substance of this is found in Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
  23: Compare 1 Tim. i. 16.
  24: Comp. c. xii. sub fin. [Ut naufragus alicuius tabulae fidem; this expression soon passed into Theo[...]
  25: Isa. xl. 15.
  26: Dan. ii. 35; Matt. iii. 12.
  27: Ps. ii. 9; Rev. ii. 27.
  28: Penes.
  29: Ps. i. 3; Jer. xvii. 8. Compare Luke xxiii. 31.
  30: Jer. xvii. 8; Matt. iii. 10.
  31: Matt. iii. 10.
  32: John xiv. 6.
  33: Obsequii.
  34: Or, "paramount."
  35: See ref. 1 on the preceding page. The phrase is "as I live" in the English version.
  36: "Asseveratione: " apparently a play on the word, as compared with "perseverare," which follows. [...]
  37: Or, "enjoyment."


  • Chapter V.-Sin Never to Be Returned to After Repentance.
  38: [The formidable doctrine of I. John iii. 9, v. 18, etc. must excuse our author for his severe adhe[...]
  39: i.e., favour.
  40: Which is solemnly done in baptism.
  41: Adgultinaris.
  42: Acts xiv. 15-17: "licet" here may = "lawful," "permissible," "excusable."
  43: "Timent," not "metuunt." "Metus" is the word Tertullian has been using above for religious, reve[...]
  44: Timor.


  • Chapter VI.-Baptism Not to Be Presumptously Received, It Requires Preceding Repentance, Manifested by Amendment of Life
  45: Deut. xxxii. 2.
  46: i.e., by baptism.
  47: Adulantur.
  48: "Commeatus," a military word = "furlough," hence "holiday-time."
  49: i.e., repurchase.
  50: Adulter; see de Idol. c. i.
  51: i.e., in baptism.
  52: Luke viii. 17.
  53: 1 John i. 5.
  54: Symbolum mortis indulget. Comp. Rom. vi. 3, 4, 8; Col. ii. 12, 20.
  55: Jer. xxxi. (LXX. xxxviii.) 34; Heb. viii. 11.
  56: i.e., in baptism.
  57: See John xiii. 10 and Matt. xxiii. 26.
  58: Metus integer.
  59: Metus.
  60: Or, "disappoints," i.e., the hasty recipient himself.


  • Chapter VII.-Of Repentance, in the Case of Such as Have Lapsed After Baptism
  61: i.e., before baptism.
  62: [Elucidation I. See infra, this chapter, sub fine.]
  63: [When our author wrote to the Martyrs, (see cap. 1.) he was less disposed to such remorseless disc[...]
  64: Timor.
  65: "Mortis opera," or "deadly works:" cf. de Idol. c. iv. (mid.), "perdition of blood," and the note[...]
  66: 1 Cor. vi. 3.
  67: Or, "has permitted somewhat still to stand open."
  68: [See cap. vii. supra.]
  69: To accept the satisfaction.


  • Chapter VIII.-Examples from Scripture to Prove the Lord's Willingness to Pardon
  70: Evolve: perhaps simply = "read."
  71: Rev. ii. 4.
  72: Rev. ii. 20.
  73: Rev. iii. 2.
  74: Rev. ii. 14, 15.
  75: Rev. iii. 17.
  76: Jer. viii. 4 (in LXX.) appears to be the passage meant. The Eng. Ver. is very different.
  77: Hos. vi. 6; Matt. ix. 13. The words in Hosea in the LXX. are, dio/ti e#leoj qe/lw h! qusi/an (al. [...]
  78: Luke xv. 7, 10.
  79: Luke xv. 8-10.
  80: Or, "suffered."
  81: Luke xv. 3-7.
  82: Luke xv. 11-32.
  83: Cf. Matt. xxiii. 9; and Eph. iii. 14, 15, in the Greek.
  84: Publicly enrolled as such in baptism; for Tertullian here is speaking solely of the "second repent[...]
  85: See Luke xv. 29-32.


  • Chapter IX.-Concerning the Outward Manifestations by Which This Second Repentance is to Be Accompanied
  86: Utter confession.
  87: For the meaning of "satisfaction," see Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. 5, where several references to the p[...]
  88: Sordibus.
  89: Cf. Ps. xxii. 1 (in LXX. xxii. 3), xxxviii. 8 (in the LXX. xxxvii. 9). Cf. Heb. v. 7.
  90: Tertullian changes here to the second person, unless Oehler's "tuum" be a misprint for "suum."
  91: "Suae," which looks as if the "tuum" above should be "suum." [St. James, v. 16.]


  • Chapter X.-Of Men's Shrinking from This Second Repentance and Exomologesis, and of the Unreasonableness of Such Shrinking
  92: Prodactae.
  93: Per. But "per," according to Oehler, is used by Tertullian as = "propter" -on your account, for yo[...]
  94: Metus.
  95: 1 Cor. xii. 26.
  96: In uno et altero.
  97: See Matt. xviii. 20.
  98: i.e. as being His body.
  99: Or, "the Son." Comp. John xi. 41, 42.
  100: Or, "by the grace."


  • Chapter XI.-Further Strictures on the Same Subject
  101: Quod securium virgarumque petitio sustinet.
  102: "Quae," neut. pl.
  103: Isa. v. 18 (comp. the LXX.).


  • Chapter XII.-Final Considerations to Induce to Exomologesis
  104: Gehennam. Comp. ad Ux. ii. c. vi. ad fin.
  105: Fumariola, i.e. the craters of volcanoes.
  106: Superbissimi: perhaps a play on the word, which is connected with "super" and "superus," as "haugh[...]
  107: For Tertullian's distinction between "the Lord's baptism" and "John's" see de Bapt. x.
  108: Or "celandine," which is perhaps only another form of "chelidonia" ("Chelidonia major," Linn.). [...]
  109: Dan. iv. 25 sqq. See de Pa. xiii.
  110: Proelium.
  111: Ex. xiv. 15-31.
  112: "Ministerium," the abstract for the concrete: so "servitia" = slaves.
  113: See c. iv. [Tabula was the word in cap. iv. but here it becomes planca, and planca post naufragium[...]
  114: See de Bapt. xii. sub init.
  115: Lit. "of all brands." Comp. c. vi.: "Does the soldier...make satisfaction for his brands."
  116: Cf. Gen. iii. 24 with Luke xxiii. 43, 2 Cor. xii. 4, and Rev. ii. 7 [Elucidation IV.]


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