5. Five Books in Reply to Marcion.: 176

¹⁷⁶ Ignibus et multa consumpta volumina vatum. Multa must, apparently, be an error for some word signifying "mould" or the like; unless, with the disregard of construction and quantity observable in this author, it be an acc. pl. to agree with volumina, so that we must take "omnia multa volumina" together, which would alter the whole construction of the context.

¹⁷⁷ Ablutor.

¹⁷⁸ Ablutor.

¹⁷⁹ Juventus.

¹⁸⁰ Mundo.

¹⁸¹ Salutem = Christum. So Simeon, "Mine eyes have seen Thy salvation," where the Greek word should be noted and compared with its usage in the LXX., especially in the Psalms. See Luke ii. 30.

¹⁸² Comp. 1 John i. 1, 2.

¹⁸³ See 2 Cor. xii. 1 sqq.

¹⁸⁴ The common reading is, "Atque suae famulae portavit spreta dolorem." for which Oehler reads "portarit;" but I incline rather to suggest that "portavit" be retained, but that the "atque" be changed into "aeque," thus: "Aeque suae famulae portavit spreta dolorem;" i.e., Since, like Sarah, the once barren Christian church-mother hath had children, equally, like Sarah, hath she had to bear scorn and spleen at her handmaid's - the Jewish church-mother's - hands.

¹⁸⁵ Dolorem.

¹⁸⁶ i.e., Ishmael's.

¹⁸⁷ "Immanes," if it be the true reading.