[[50]] Lactantius, de mort. persec. 2.
[[51]] Tertullian lays down the canon (adv. Marc. iii, 5) pleraque figurate portenduntur per ænigmata et allegorias et parabolas, aliter intelligenda quam scripta sunt; but (de resurr. carnis, 20) non omnia imagines sed et veritates, nec omnia umbræ sed et corpora, e.g. the Virgin-birth is not foretold in figure.
[[52]] Trypho, 62, 129; Barnabas, 5, 5; Tert. adv. Prax. 12.
[[53]] Trypho, 56.
[[54]] Ibid. 56.
[[55]] Ibid. 56.
[[56]] Trypho, 56, 57.
[[57]] Trypho, 127. Tert. adv. Marc. ii, 27. Quæcunque exigitis deodigna, habebuntur in patre invisibili incongressibilique et placido et, ut ita dixerim, philosophorum deo. Quæcunque autem ut indigna reprehenditis, deputabuntur in filio, etc. Cf. on the distinction Tert. adv. Prax. 14 ff. Cf. the language of Celsus on God "descending," see p. 248.
[[58]] Trypho, 126. Other titles are quoted by Justin, Trypho, 61.
[[59]] Trypho, 128. Cf. Tertullian, adv. Marc. ii, 27, Ille est qui descendit, ille qui interrogat, ille qui postulat, ille qui jurat; adv. Prax. 15, Filius itaque est qui....