The Instructions of Commodianus in Favour of Christian Discipline. Against the Gods of the Heathens. (Expressed in Acrostics.): 5

⁵ [This is not Patripassianism. Nor does the "one God" of the next chapter involve this heresy.]

⁶ [Here ends the apologetic portion.]

⁷ Scil. "capite," conjectural for "cavete."

⁸ [Or, "shadows forth Himself."]

⁹ "Eusebius tells of another Enoch, who was not translated without seeing death." - Rig. [See Gen. iv. 17, 18. S.]

¹⁰ Et inde secunda terribilem legem primo cum pace revincit. - Davis, conjecturally.

¹¹ [See Elucidation at end.]

¹² [The translator here inserts a mark of interrogation. The meaning is: lick up them (the wicked) who have persecuted them. Dan. iii. 22.]

¹³ [Rev. iii. 14.]

¹⁴ [Catechumens falling away before baptism must not despair, but persevere and remain under discipline.]

¹⁵ Or, "If one prophet only had cried out to the world."

¹⁶ Sponte profectos.

¹⁷ Deperdunt.