octalogue

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octalogue (plural octalogues)

  1. A series of eight statements.
    • 2000, Rick Rogers, Theophilus of Antioch: The Life and Thought of a Second-century Bishop, page 128:
      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
    • 2010 page 114
      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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