Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.i Pg 48.1
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.i Pg 49.1
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.xiii Pg 7.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.vi Pg 40.1
Anf-03 vi.iii.xvii Pg 9
1 Cor. x. 23, where μοι in the received text seems interpolated.
Let it suffice assuredly, in cases of necessity, to avail yourself (of that rule8713 8713 Or, as Oehler explains it, of your power of baptizing, etc.
, if at any time circumstance either of place, or of time, or of person compels you (so to do); for then the stedfast courage of the succourer, when the situation of the endangered one is urgent, is exceptionally admissible; inasmuch as he will be guilty of a human creature’s loss if he shall refrain from bestowing what he had free liberty to bestow. But the woman of pertness,8714 8714 Quintilla. See c. i.
who has usurped the power to teach, will of course not give birth for herself likewise to a right of baptizing, unless some new beast shall arise8715 8715 Evenerit. Perhaps Tertullian means literally—though that sense of the word is very rare—“shall issue out of her,” alluding to his “pariet” above.
like the former; so that, just as the one abolished baptism,8716 8716 See c. i. ad fin.
so some other should in her own right confer it! But if the writings which wrongly go under Paul’s name, claim Thecla’s example as a licence for women’s teaching and baptizing, let them know that, in Asia, the presbyter who composed that writing,8717 8717 The allusion is to a spurious work entitled Acta Pauli et Theclæ. [Of which afterwards. But see Jones, on the Canon, II. p. 353, and Lardner, Credibility, II. p. 305.]
as if he were augmenting Paul’s fame from his own store, after being convicted, and confessing that he had done it from love of Paul, was removed8718 8718 Decessisse.
from his office. For how credible would it seem, that he who has not permitted a woman8719 8719 Mulieri.
even to learn with over-boldness, should give a female8720 8720 Fœminæ.
the power of teaching and of baptizing! “Let them be silent,” he says, “and at home consult their own husbands.”8721 8721
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 10
VERSE (23) - 1Co 6:12; 8:9 Ro 14:15,20
