Anf-03 v.iv.v.i Pg 22
T.’s version of Isa. x. 23. “Decisus Sermo” ="determined” of A.V.
Because the New Testament is compendiously short,3497 3497 Compendiatum.
and freed from the minute and perplexing3498 3498 Laciniosis.
burdens of the law. But why enlarge, when the Creator by the same prophet foretells the renovation more manifestly and clearly than the light itself? “Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old” (the old things have passed away, and new things are arising). “Behold, I will do new things, which shall now spring forth.”3499 3499
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xvi Pg 60
“Recisum sermonem facturus in terris Dominus.” This reading of Isa. x. 23 is very unlike the original, but (as frequently happens in Tertullian) is close upon the Septuagint version: ῞Οτι λόγον συντετμημένον Κύριος ποιήσει ἐν τῇ οἰκουμένῃ ὅλῃ. [Rom. ix. 28.]
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 10
VERSE (23) - Isa 14:26,27; 24:1-23 Da 4:35
