Meanings
plural octalogues
- A series of eight statements.
Thus Tertullian has turned, as it were, the Decalogue into his own octalogue, which he brings into close line with natural precepts.
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Theophilus proceeds to divide what he will shortly call the "Ten Chapters" […], or more precisely an octalogue plus a selection of other appropriate materials, into three parts
2000, Rick Rogers, Theophilus of Antioch: The Life and Thought of a Second-century Bishop, page 128
Origin
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