Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.xxiii Pg 27.1
Anf-03 v.iv.ii.xxix Pg 12
Lev. xx. 10, 13, 15.
Now, if any limitation is set to marrying—such as the spiritual rule,2683 2683 Ratio.
which prescribes but one marriage under the Christian obedience,2684 2684 In fide. Tertullian uses (De Pud. 18) “ante fidem” as synonymous with ante baptismum; similarly “post fidem.”
maintained by the authority of the Paraclete,2685 2685 [Bad as this is, does it argue the lapse of our author as at this time complete?]
—it will be His prerogative to fix the limit Who had once been diffuse in His permission; His to gather, Who once scattered; His to cut down the tree, Who planted it; His to reap the harvest, Who sowed the seed; His to declare, “It remaineth that they who have wives be as though they had none,”2686 2686
Anf-03 vi.iv.viii Pg 6
i.e. no children even. The reference is apparently to Matt. x. 37 and Luke xiv. 26, with which may be compared Deut. xiii. 6–; 10 and xxxiii. 9. If Oehler’s reading, which I have followed, be correct, the precept, which is not verbally given till ages after Abraham, is made to have a retrospective force on him.
He Himself, when tempted by the devil, demonstrated who it is that presides over and is the originator of temptation.8820 8820
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xviii Pg 21
Deut. xxi. 21; quoted also in 1 Cor. v. 13.
Again, “Go ye out from the midst of them; touch not the unclean thing; separate yourselves, ye that bear the vessels of the Lord.”6022 6022
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 22
VERSE (21) - :22,24; 13:10; 17:5; 21:21 Le 24:16,23 Nu 15:35,36
