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Address to martyrs
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  • Appen
  1: . p. 51 n 1. Tertullian’s use of “martyrs” for those who were destined to suffer, but had not yet [...]


  • I
  2: . p.53 n. 1. On this custom see above, pp. 21, 39, 46.


  • II
  3: . p.54 n.1 The reference is to the Vow of Renunciation at Baptism, for the various forms of which [...]
  4: . p.55 n.1 These words contain a reference to the recreation walk planted with trees, and to the a[...]


  • III
  5: . p55 n.2 In the Baptismal Vow of Obedience. The metaphor of the Christian soldier comes from 2 Ti[...]
  6: . p.56 n.1 A movement in which the soldiers interlocked their shields over their heads, so as to r[...]
  7: . p.56 n.2. The metaphor throughout this passage is that of the palæstra,
  8: . p.57 n. 1. It will have been noticed that the martyrs’ prison is viewed under five different asp[...]


  • IV
  9: . p.57 n. 2. Compare the case of Blandina, p. 37.
  10: . p.59 n. 1 Her name was Leæna: see Pliny, Hist. Nat. vii. 23; Pausanias, i. 23.


  • V
  11: . p.60 n.1 See above, p. 36, and below, p. 73.
  12: . p.60 n.2 An emperor, for instance, or a usurper. The following words refer to the ruthless punis[...]


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