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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tertuliano" title="Tertuliano – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Tertuliano" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tertuliano" title="Tertuliano – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Tertuliano" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tertullianus" title="Tertullianus – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Tertullianus" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" 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In them <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> is one <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> though many tongues.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Merson_Truth.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Merson_Truth.jpg/220px-Merson_Truth.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Merson_Truth.jpg/330px-Merson_Truth.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Merson_Truth.jpg/440px-Merson_Truth.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2183" data-file-height="1288" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">Truth</a> <a href="/wiki/Persuades" class="mw-redirect" title="Persuades">persuades</a> by <a href="/wiki/Teaching" class="mw-redirect" title="Teaching">teaching</a>, but does not teach by persuading.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:La_V%C3%A9rit%C3%A9_Sortant_du_Puits_(1).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/La_V%C3%A9rit%C3%A9_Sortant_du_Puits_%281%29.JPG/220px-La_V%C3%A9rit%C3%A9_Sortant_du_Puits_%281%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/La_V%C3%A9rit%C3%A9_Sortant_du_Puits_%281%29.JPG/330px-La_V%C3%A9rit%C3%A9_Sortant_du_Puits_%281%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/La_V%C3%A9rit%C3%A9_Sortant_du_Puits_%281%29.JPG/440px-La_V%C3%A9rit%C3%A9_Sortant_du_Puits_%281%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3168" data-file-height="4752" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">Truth</a> does not blush.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini_-_Dove_of_the_Holy_Spirit.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini_-_Dove_of_the_Holy_Spirit.JPG/220px-Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini_-_Dove_of_the_Holy_Spirit.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini_-_Dove_of_the_Holy_Spirit.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="323" data-file-height="215" /></a><figcaption>When <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>'s Spirit descends, then <a href="/wiki/Patience" title="Patience">Patience</a> accompanies Him indivisibly.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Raffael_058.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Raffael_058.jpg/220px-Raffael_058.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Raffael_058.jpg/330px-Raffael_058.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Raffael_058.jpg/440px-Raffael_058.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6045" data-file-height="4671" /></a><figcaption>You can <a href="/wiki/Judgement" class="mw-redirect" title="Judgement">judge</a> the <a href="/wiki/Quality" title="Quality">quality</a> of their <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> from the way they behave. <a href="/wiki/Discipline" title="Discipline">Discipline</a> is an index to <a href="/wiki/Doctrine" title="Doctrine">doctrine</a>.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Soul's_Testimony"><span id="The_Soul.27s_Testimony"></span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0309.htm"><i>The Soul's Testimony</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: The Soul's Testimony"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/De_testimonio_animae" class="extiw" title="s:De testimonio animae">De testimonio animae</a> (On the testimony of the soul)</small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Omnium gentium unus homo, uarium nomen est, una anima, uaria uox, unus spiritus, uarius sonus, propria cuique genti loquella, sed loquellae materia communis.</i> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Humanity" title="Humanity">Man</a> is one <a href="/wiki/Name" class="mw-redirect" title="Name">name</a> belonging to every <a href="/wiki/Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Nation">nation</a> upon <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a>. In them all is one <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a> though many tongues.</b> Every country has its own language, yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/The_Soul%27s_Testimony/Chapter_VI" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/The Soul's Testimony/Chapter VI"><i>De Testimonio Animae</i> (The Testimony of the Soul), 6.3</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Against_the_Valentinians"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0314.htm"><i>Against the Valentinians</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Against the Valentinians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/Against_the_Valentinians" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/Against the Valentinians">Adversus Valentinianos</a> (Against the Valentinians), here translated by <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Alexander_Roberts" class="extiw" title="s:Author:Alexander Roberts">Alexander Roberts</a>. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 3. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.)</small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Veritas autem docendo persuadet non suadendo docet.</i> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">Truth</a> persuades by <a href="/wiki/Teaching" class="mw-redirect" title="Teaching">teaching</a>, but does not teach by persuading.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/Against_the_Valentinians/I" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/Against the Valentinians/I"><i>Adversus Valentinianos</i> (Against the Valentinians), 1.4</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Nihil veritas erubescit</i> <ul><li><b>Truth does not blush.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/Against_the_Valentinians/III" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/Against the Valentinians/III"><i>Adversus Valentinianos</i>, 3.2</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_the_Flesh_of_Christ"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0315.htm"><i> On the Flesh of Christ</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: On the Flesh of Christ"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/On_the_Flesh_of_Christ" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/On the Flesh of Christ">De carne Christi</a> (On the flesh of Christ), here translated by <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Peter_Holmes" class="extiw" title="s:Author:Peter Holmes">Peter Holmes</a>. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 3. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.)</small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum est.</i> <ul><li>It is to be believed because it is absurd.</li> <li>Variant translations <ul><li>It is by all means to be believed, because it is absurd.</li> <li>It is is entirely credible, because it is inept. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/On_the_Flesh_of_Christ/V" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/On the Flesh of Christ/V"><i>De Carne Christi</i> 5.4</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><i>Certum est, quia impossibile.</i> <ul><li>It is certain because it is impossible. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/On_the_Flesh_of_Christ/V" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/On the Flesh of Christ/V"><i>De Carne Christi</i> 5.4</a></li></ul></li> <li>Often paraphrased or misquoted as "<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credo_quia_absurdum" class="extiw" title="w:Credo quia absurdum">Credo quia absurdum</a>.</i>"</li> <li>Also paraphrased as "It is so extraordinary that it must be true." <ul><li>The above two lines from <i>De Carne Christi</i> have often become conflated into the statement:<i> "Credo quia impossibile" </i>(I believe it because it is impossible), which can be perceived as a distortion of the actual arguments that Tertullian was making.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>De calcaria in carbonarium.</i> <ul><li>Out of the frying pan into the fire. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/On_the_Flesh_of_Christ/VI" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/On the Flesh of Christ/VI"><i>De Carne Christi</i>, 6</a>; "The Roman version of the proverb is more literally translated "Out of the lime-kiln into the coal-furnace."</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Omnia periclitabuntur aliter accipi quam sunt, et amittere quod sunt dum aliter accipiuntur, si aliter quam sunt cognominantur. <b>Fides nominum salus est proprietatum.</b> </i> <ul><li>All things will be in danger of being taken in a sense different from their own proper sense, and, whilst taken in that different sense, of losing their proper one, if they are called by a name which differs from their natural designation. <b>Fidelity in names secures the safe appreciation of properties</b>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/On_the_Flesh_of_Christ/XIII" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/On the Flesh of Christ/XIII"><i>De Carne Christi</i>, 13.2</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_the_Resurrection_of_the_Flesh"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0316.htm"><i>On the Resurrection of the Flesh</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: On the Resurrection of the Flesh"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/On_the_Resurrection_of_the_Flesh" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/On the Resurrection of the Flesh">De resurrectione carnis</a> (On the resurrection of the flesh), here translated by Holmes, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>Why lean upon a blind guide, if you have eyes of your own? Why be clothed by one who is naked, if you have put on Christ? Why use the shield of another, when the apostle gives you armour of your own? It would be better for him to learn from you to acknowledge the resurrection of the flesh, than for you from him to deny it; because if Christians must needs deny it, it would be sufficient if they did so from their own knowledge, without any instruction from the ignorant multitude. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/On_the_Resurrection_of_the_Flesh/III" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/On the Resurrection of the Flesh/III"><i>De Resurrectione Carnis</i> [<i>Of the Resurrection of Flesh</i>]</a> Ch.1 as quoted in <i>The Writings of Tertullian</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=nlcPAQAAMAAJ">Vol.2</a> Tr. Peter Holmes, as contained in <i>Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to AD 325</i> Vol.15 (1870)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="De_Fuga_in_Persecutione"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0409.htm"><i>De Fuga in Persecutione</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: De Fuga in Persecutione"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/De_Fuga_in_Persecutione" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/De Fuga in Persecutione">De fuga in persecutione</a> (On running away from persecution), here translated by <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Sydney_Thelwall" class="extiw" title="s:Author:Sydney Thelwall">Sydney Thelwall</a>. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 4. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.)</small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Qui fugiebat, rursus sibi proeliabitur.</i> <ul><li>He who flees will fight again. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/De_Fuga_in_Persecutione/De_Fuga_in_Persecutione" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/De Fuga in Persecutione/De Fuga in Persecutione"><i>De Fuga in Persecutione</i>, 10</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="To_Scapula"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0305.htm"><i>To Scapula</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: To Scapula"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ad_Scapulam" class="extiw" title="s:Ad Scapulam">Ad Scapulam</a> (To Scapula)</small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Nec alii obest aut prodest alterius religio.</i> <ul><li>One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/To_Scapula/Chapter_II" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/To Scapula/Chapter II"><i>Ad Scapulam</i>, 2.2</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Nec religionis est cogere religionem</i> <ul><li><b>It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/To_Scapula/Chapter_II" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/To Scapula/Chapter II"><i>Ad Scapulam</i>, 2.2</a></li></ul></li> <li>This tract has been found quoted by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> in the margins of his personal copy of <i><a href="/wiki/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia" title="Notes on the State of Virginia">Notes on the State of Virginia</a></i>, concerning religious freedom.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Against_Marcion"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0312.htm"><i>Against Marcion</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Against Marcion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion">Adversus Marcionem </a> (Against Marcion), here translated by Holmes, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The dead bodies of their parents they cut up with their sheep, and devour at their feasts. They who have not died so as to become food for others, are thought to have died an accursed death. Their women are not by their sex softened to modesty. They uncover the breast, from which they suspend their battle-axes, and prefer warfare to marriage. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I">Book I</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I/I" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I/I">Chapter I.—Preface. Reason for a New Work. Pontus Lends Its Rough Character to the Heretic Marcion, a Native. His Heresy Characterized in a Brief Invective.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But the Christian verity has distinctly declared this principle, “God is not, if He is not one;” because we more properly believe that that has no existence which is not as it ought to be. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I">Book I</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I/III" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I/III">Chapter III.—The Unity of God. He is the Supreme Being, and There Cannot Be a Second Supreme.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But this argument you will try to shake with an objection from the name of God, by alleging that that name is a vague one, and applied to other beings also; as it is written, “God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; He judgeth among the gods.” And again, “I have said, Ye are gods.” <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I">Book I</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I/VII" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I/VII">Chapter VII.—Other Beings Besides God are in Scripture Called God. This Objection Frivolous, for It is Not a Question of Names. The Divine Essence is the Thing at Issue. Heresy, in Its General Terms, Thus Far Treated.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the first place, how arrogantly do the Marcionites build up their stupid system, bringing forward a new god, as if we were ashamed of the old one! <b>So schoolboys are proud of their new shoes, but their old master beats their strutting vanity out of them.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I">Book I</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I/VIII" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I/VIII">Chapter VIII.—Specific Points. The Novelty of Marcion’s God Fatal to His Pretensions. God is from Everlasting, He Cannot Be in Any Wise New.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What indeed tended so greatly to the knowledge of himself, as his appearing in the humiliation of the flesh,—a degradation all the lower indeed if the flesh were only illusory? For it was all the more shameful if he, who brought on himself the Creator’s curse by hanging on a tree, only pretended the assumption of a bodily substance. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I">Book I</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I/XI" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I/XI">Chapter XI.—The Evidence for God External to Him; But the External Creation Which Yields This Evidence is Really Not Extraneous, for All Things are God’s. Marcion’s God, Having Nothing to Show for Himself, No God at All. Marcion’s Scheme Absurdly Defective, Not Furnishing Evidence for His New God’s Existence, Which Should at Least Be Able to Compete with the Full Evidence of the Creator.</a> <ul><li>Compare <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Quran_(Progressive_Muslims_Organization)" class="extiw" title="s:Quran (Progressive Muslims Organization)">the Qur'ān</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Quran_(Progressive_Muslims_Organization)/4#153-162" class="extiw" title="s:Quran (Progressive Muslims Organization)/4">004:157</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Finally, take a circuit round your own self; survey man within and without. Even this handiwork of our God will be pleasing to you, inasmuch as your own lord, that better god, loved it so well, and for your sake was at the pains of descending from the third heaven to these poverty-stricken elements, and for the same reason was actually crucified in this sorry apartment of the Creator. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I">Book I</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I/XIV" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I/XIV">Chapter XIV.—All Portions of Creation Attest the Excellence of the Creator, Whom Marcion Vilifies. His Inconsistency Herein Exposed. Marcion’s Own God Did Not Hesitate to Use the Creator’s Works in Instituting His Own Religion.</a> <ul><li>Compare <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/2_Corinthians#Chapter_12" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/2 Corinthians">2 Corinthians 12:2</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Doctrine_and_Covenants/Section_131" class="extiw" title="s:The Doctrine and Covenants/Section 131">D&C 131</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Then, inasmuch as He too has fabricated a world out of some underlying material which is unbegotten, and unmade, and contemporaneous with God, just as Marcion holds of the Creator, you reduce this likewise to the dignity of that local space which has enclosed two gods, both God and matter. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I">Book I</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I/XV" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I/XV">Chapter XV.—The Lateness of the Revelation of Marcion’s God. The Question of the Place Occupied by the Rival Deities. Instead of Two Gods, Marcion Really (Although, as It Would Seem, Unconsciously) Had Nine Gods in His System.</a> <ul><li>Compare <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>'s <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl262.php#:~:text=To%20say%20that%20the%20human,Locke%2C%20Tracy%2C%20and%20Stewart.">letter to John Adams, Monticello, Aug. 15, 1820</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Digna enim deo probabunt deum. Nos definimus deum primo natura cognoscendum, deinde doctrina recognoscendum, natura ex operibus, doctrina ex praedicationibus.</i> <ul><li>For things which are worthy of God will prove the existence of God. We maintain that God must first be known from <i>nature</i>, and afterwards authenticated by <i>instruction</i>: from nature by His works; by instruction, through His revealed announcements. <ul><li>Variant translation: <b>We conclude that God is known first through Nature, and then again, more particularly, by doctrine; by Nature in His works, and by doctrine in His revealed word.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I">Book I</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_I/XVIII" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book I/XVIII">Chapter XVIII.—Notwithstanding Their Conceits, the God of the Marcionites Fails in the Vouchers Both of Created Evidence and of Adequate Revelation.</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>This was quoted by <a href="/wiki/Galileo" class="mw-redirect" title="Galileo">Galileo</a> in his defense of natural sciences. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://people.bu.edu/dklepper/RN242/duchess.html">Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Infirma commendatio est quae de alterius destructione fulcitur. </i> <ul><li>Of little worth is the recommendation which has for its prop the defamation of another. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_IV/XV" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book IV/XV"><i>Adversus Marcionem</i>, IV.15.5</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Itaque et ego vanitatem vanitate depellam.</i> <ul><li>I shall dispel one empty story by another.</li> <li>Variant translations: <ul><li>I must dispel vanity with vanity.</li> <li>I must, however, on my side, dispel one fond conceit by another. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/The_Five_Books_Against_Marcion/Book_IV/XXX" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book IV/XXX"><i>Adversus Marcionem</i>, IV.30.3</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Of_Patience"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0325.htm"><i>Of Patience</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Of Patience"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Ethical/On_Patience" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Ethical/On Patience">De patientia</a> (On patience), here translated by Thelwall, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Cum ergo spiritus Dei descendit, indiuidua patientia comitatur eum.</i> <ul><li><b>When <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Spirit" title="Spirit">Spirit</a> descends, then <a href="/wiki/Patience" title="Patience">Patience</a> accompanies Him indivisibly.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Ethical/On_Patience/XV" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Ethical/On Patience/XV"><i>De Patientia</i>, 15:7</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_Repentance"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0320.htm"><i>On Repentance</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: On Repentance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Ethical/On_Repentance" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Ethical/On Repentance">De paenitentia</a> (On repentance), here translated by Thelwall, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Quippe res dei ratio quia deus omnium conditor nihil non ratione providit disposuit ordinavit, nihil [enim] non ratione tractari intellegique voluit. [3] Igitur ignorantes quique deum rem quoque eius ignorent necesse est quia nullius omnino thesaurus extraneis patet. Itaque universam vitae conversationem sine gubernaculo rationis transfretantes inminentem saeculo procellam evitare non norunt.</i> <ul><li><i>Reason</i>, in fact, is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by <i>reason</i> — nothing which He has not willed should be handled and understood by <i>reason</i>. All, therefore, who are ignorant of God, must necessarily be ignorant also of a thing which is His, because no treasure-house at all is accessible to strangers. And thus, voyaging all the universal course of life without the rudder of reason, they know not how to shun the hurricane which is impending over the world. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Ethical/On_Repentance/I" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Ethical/On Repentance/I"><i>De Paenitentia</i> (On Repentance), 1.2-3</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Against_Praxeas"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0317.htm"><i>Against Praxeas</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Against Praxeas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ephesus37.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Ephesus37.jpg/220px-Ephesus37.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="345" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Ephesus37.jpg/330px-Ephesus37.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Ephesus37.jpg/440px-Ephesus37.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1122" data-file-height="1758" /></a><figcaption>This power and disposition of the Divine Intelligence is set forth also in the Scriptures under the name of Σοφία, Wisdom.</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/Against_Praxeas" class="extiw" title="s:https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/Against Praxeas">Adversus Praxean</a> (Against Praxeas), here translated by Holmes, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>This power and disposition of the <a href="/wiki/Divine" class="mw-redirect" title="Divine">Divine</a> <a href="/wiki/Intelligence" title="Intelligence">Intelligence</a> is set forth also in the Scriptures under the name of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(wisdom)" class="extiw" title="w:Sophia (wisdom)">Σοφία</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wisdom" title="Wisdom">Wisdom</a>; for what can be better entitled to the name of Wisdom than the <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">Reason</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Word" class="mw-redirect" title="Word">Word</a> of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>?</b> Listen therefore to Wisdom herself, constituted in the character of a Second Person: “At the first the Lord created me as the beginning of His ways, with a view to His own works, before He made the earth, before the mountains were settled; moreover, before all the hills did He beget me;” that is to say, He created and generated me in His own intelligence. Then, again, observe the distinction between them implied in the companionship of Wisdom with the Lord. “When He prepared the heaven,” says <i>Wisdom</i>, “I was present with Him; and when He made His strong places upon the winds, which are the clouds above; and when He secured the fountains, (and all things) which are beneath the sky, I was by, arranging all things with Him; I was by, in whom He delighted; and daily, too, did I rejoice in His presence.” Now, as soon as it pleased God to put forth into their respective substances and forms the things which He had planned and ordered within Himself, in conjunction with His Wisdom’s Reason and Word, He first put forth the Word Himself, having within Him His own inseparable Reason and Wisdom, in order that all things might be made through Him through whom they had been planned and disposed, yea, and already made, so far forth as (they were) in the mind and intelligence of God. This, however, was still wanting to them, that they should also be openly known, and kept permanently in their proper forms and substances. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/Against_Praxeas/VI" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/Against Praxeas/VI">Chapter VI.—The Word of God is Also the Wisdom of God. The Going Forth of Wisdom to Create the Universe, According to the Divine Plan.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Qui si ipse deus est secundum Ioannem - Deus erat sermo - habes duos, alium dicentem ut fiat, alium facientem. Alium autem quomodo accipere debeas iam professus sum, personae non substantiae nomine, ad distinctionem non ad divisionem.</i> <ul><li>Now if He too is God, according to John, (who says.) "The Word was God," then you have two, One that commands that the thing be made. and the Other that makes. In what sense, however, you ought to understand Him to be another I have already explained, on the ground of Personality, not of Substance, in the way of distinction, not of division. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0788/_P1.HTM">Adv. Prax. 12</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Ergo, inquis, si deus dixit et deus fecit, si alius deus dixit et alius fecit, duo dii praedicantur. Si tam durus es, puta interim. Et ut adhuc amplius hoc putes, accipe et in psalmo duos deos dictos: Thronus tuus, deus, in aevum, <virga directionis> virga regni tui; dilexisti iustitiam et odisti iniquitatem, propterea unxit te deus, deus tuus.</i> <ul><li>"Therefore", thou sayest, "if a god said and a god made, if one god said and another made, two gods are being preached." If thou art so hard, think a little! And that thou may think more fully, accept that in the Psalm two gods are spoken of: "Thy throne, God, is for ever, a sceptre of right direction is thy sceptre; thou hast loved justice and hast hated iniquity, therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee." <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0788/_P1.HTM">Adv. Prax. 13</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But I find in Scripture the name Lord also applied to them Both: “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on my right hand.” And Isaiah says this: “Lord, who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?” Now he would most certainly have said Thine Arm, if he had not wished us to understand that the Father is Lord, and the Son also is Lord. A much more ancient testimony we have also in Genesis: “Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.” Now, either deny that this is Scripture; or else (let me ask) what sort of man you are, that you do not think words ought to be taken and understood in the sense in which they are written, especially when they are not expressed in allegories and parables, but in determinate and simple declarations? <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Anti-Marcion/Against_Praxeas/XIII" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/Against Praxeas/XIII">Chapter XIII.—The Force of Sundry Passages of Scripture Illustrated in Relation to the Plurality of Persons and Unity of Substance. There is No Polytheism Here, Since the Unity is Insisted on as a Remedy Against Polytheism.</a></li></ul></li> <li><i>Igitur unus deus pater, et absque eo alius non est: quod ipse inferens non filium negat sed alium deum: ceterum alius a patre filius non est.</i> <ul><li>Therefore "there is one God," the Father, "and without Him there is none else." And when He Himself makes this declaration, He denies not the Son, but says that there is no other God; and the Son is not different from the Father. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0788/_P1.HTM">Adv. Prax. 18</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Si filium nolunt secundum a patre reputari ne secundus duos faciat deos dici, ostendimus etiam duos deos in scriptura relatos et duos dominos: et tamen ne de isto scandalizentur, rationem reddimus qua dei non duo dicantur nec domini sed qua pater et filius duo, et hoc non ex separatione substantiae sed ex dispositione, cum individuum et inseparatum filium a patre pronuntiamus, nec statu sed gradu alium, qui etsi deus dicatur quando nominatur singularis, non ideo duos deos faciat sed unum, hoc ipso quod et deus ex unitate patris vocari habeat.</i> <ul><li>If they do not wish that the Son be considered second to the Father, lest being second he cause it to be said that there are two gods, we have also showed that two gods are related in Scripture, and two lords. And yet, let them not be scandalized by this – we give a reason why there are not said to be two gods nor lords but rather two as a Father and a Son. And this not from separation of substance but from disposition, since we pronounce the Son undivided and unseparated from the Father, other not in status but in grade, who although he is said to be God when mentioned by himself, does not therefore make two gods but one, by the fact that he is also entitled to be called God from the unity of the Father. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.intratext.com/IXT/LAT0788/_P1.HTM">Adv. Prax. 19</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_Baptism"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0321.htm"><i>On Baptism</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: On Baptism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/" class="extiw" title="s:">De baptismo</a> (On baptism)</small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Igitur benedicti, quos gratia dei expectat, cum de illo sanctissimo lavacro novi natalis ascenditis et primas manus apud matrem cum fratribus aperitis, petite de patre, petite de domino, peculia gratiae, distributiones charismatum subiacere. Petite et accipietis, inquit. Quaesistis enim et invenistis, pulsastis et apertum est vobis. Tantum oro, ut cum petitis etiam Tertulliani peccatoris memineritis.</i> <ul><li>Therefore, you blessed ones, for whom the grace of God is waiting, when you come up from that most sacred washing of the new birth, and when for the first time you spread out your hands with your brethren in your mother's house, ask of your Father, ask of your Lord, that special grants of grace and apportionments of spiritual gifts be yours. <i>Ask</i>, he says, <i>and ye shall receive</i>. So now, you have sought, and have found: you have knocked, and it has been opened to you. <b>This only I pray, that as you ask you also have in mind Tertullian, a sinner.</b> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tertullian.org/articles/evans_bapt/evans_bapt_text_trans.htm">De Baptismo</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Prescription_Against_Heretics"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0311.htm"><i>The Prescription Against Heretics</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: The Prescription Against Heretics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/De_praescriptione_haereticorum" class="extiw" title="s:https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/De praescriptione haereticorum">De praescriptione haereticorum</a> (On the prescription of heretics),</small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>Notorious, too, are the dealings of <a href="/wiki/Heretics" class="mw-redirect" title="Heretics">heretics</a> with swarms of <a href="/wiki/Magicians" class="mw-redirect" title="Magicians">magicians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charlatans" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlatans">charlatans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Astrologers" class="mw-redirect" title="Astrologers">astrologers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philosophers" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophers">philosophers</a> — all, of course, devotees of speculation. <b>You can <a href="/wiki/Judgement" class="mw-redirect" title="Judgement">judge</a> the <a href="/wiki/Quality" title="Quality">quality</a> of their <a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">faith</a> from the way they behave. <a href="/wiki/Discipline" title="Discipline">Discipline</a> is an index to <a href="/wiki/Doctrine" title="Doctrine">doctrine</a>.</b> <ul><li><i>The Prescriptions Against the Heretics</i> as translated by Stanley Lawrence Greenslade, in <i>Early Latin Theology: Selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome</i> (1956), p. 63</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? (Quid ergo Athenae Hierosolymis?)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="A_Treatise_on_the_Soul"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0310.htm"><i>A Treatise on the Soul</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: A Treatise on the Soul"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/A_Treatise_on_the_Soul" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/A Treatise on the Soul">De anima</a> (On the soul), here translated by Holmes, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>[S]ome men are very bad, and some very good; but yet the souls of all form but one genus: even in the worst there is something good, and in the best there is something bad. ... Just as no soul is without sin, so neither is any soul without seeds of good. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/A_Treatise_on_the_Soul/Chapter_XLI" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/A Treatise on the Soul/Chapter XLI"><i>A Treatise on the Soul</i>, chap. 41</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_Modesty"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0407.htm"><i>On Modesty</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: On Modesty"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Modesty" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Modesty">De pudicitia</a> (On Modesty), here translated by Thelwall, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>I now inquire into your opinion, (to see) from what source you usurp this right to “the Church.”<div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div>If, because the Lord has said to Peter, “Upon this rock will I build My Church,” “to thee have I given the keys of the heavenly kingdom;” or, “Whatsoever thou shalt have bound or loosed in earth, shall be bound or loosed in the heavens,” you therefore presume that the power of binding and loosing has derived to you, that is, to every Church akin to Peter, what sort of man are you, subverting and wholly changing the manifest intention of the Lord, conferring (as that intention did) this (gift) personally upon Peter? “<i>On thee</i>,” He says, “will I build My Church;” and, “I will give <i>to thee</i> the keys,” not to <i>the Church</i>; and, “Whatsoever <i>thou shalt have loosed or bound</i>,” not what <i>they</i> shall have loosed or bound. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Modesty/Chapter_21" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Modesty/Chapter 21">Chapter XXI.—Of the Difference Between Discipline and Power, and of the Power of the Keys.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For the very Church itself is, properly and principally, the Spirit Himself, in whom is the Trinity of the One Divinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (The Spirit) combines that Church which the Lord has made to consist in “three.” And thus, from that time forward, every number (of persons) who may have combined together into this faith is accounted “a Church,” from the Author and Consecrator (of the Church). And accordingly “the Church,” it is true, will forgive sins: but (it will be) the Church of the Spirit, by means of a spiritual man; not the Church which consists of a number of bishops. For the right and arbitrament is the Lord’s, not the servant’s; God’s Himself, not the priest’s. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Modesty/Chapter_21" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Modesty/Chapter 21">Chapter XXI.—Of the Difference Between Discipline and Power, and of the Power of the Keys.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Apology"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0301.htm"><i>The Apology</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: The Apology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Crocifisso_attribuito_a_Michelangelo2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Crocifisso_attribuito_a_Michelangelo2.jpg/220px-Crocifisso_attribuito_a_Michelangelo2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="259" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Crocifisso_attribuito_a_Michelangelo2.jpg/330px-Crocifisso_attribuito_a_Michelangelo2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Crocifisso_attribuito_a_Michelangelo2.jpg/440px-Crocifisso_attribuito_a_Michelangelo2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2032" data-file-height="2388" /></a><figcaption>The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tertullian%27s_Apology" class="extiw" title="s:Tertullian's Apology">Apologeticum</a> (Apology)</small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>O testimonium animae naturaliter Christianae</i> <ul><li>O witness of the soul naturally Christian. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter_XVII" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter XVII">Chapter 17</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><i>Fiunt non nascuntur Christiani</i> <ul><li>Christians are made, not born. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter_XVIII" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter XVIII">Chapter 18</a></li></ul></li> <li>Many variants on this exist, notably “Great lovers are made, not born.” and “(Great) leaders are made, not born.”</li> <li>A variant on “One is not born wise, but becomes wise” from <a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a> <i>On Anger</i> 2.10.6; see: <i>Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: the witness of Tertullian,</i> by Tertullian, Robert Dick Sider, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-qezxQeuutYC&pg=PA38&dq=%22Christians+are+made,+not+born%22">p. 38</a>, footnote 79</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Even when the ray is shot from the sun, it is still part of the parent mass; the sun will still be in the ray, because it is a ray of the sun—there is no division of substance, but merely an extension. Thus Christ is Spirit of Spirit, and God of God, as light of light is kindled. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter_XXI" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter XXI">Chapter 21</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Esterni sumus, & vestra omnia implevimus, Vrbes, Insulas, Castella, Municipia, Conciliabula, Castra ipsa, Tribus, Decurias, palatium, Senatum, Forum, sola vobis relinquimus Templa. </i> <ul><li>We are but of yesterday, and yet we have filled all the places that belong to you — cities, islands, forts, towns, exchanges; the military camps themselves, tribes, town councils, the palace, the senate, the market-place; we have left you nothing but your temples. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter_XXXVII" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter XXXVII">Chapter 37, <i>Tertullian's Plea For Allegiance</i>, A.2</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In pursuit of gain, men have begun to consider their violence an article to be bought and sold. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter_XXXVIII" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter XXXVIII">Chapter 38</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We [Christians] have no pressing inducement to take part in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire" class="extiw" title="w:Roman Empire">your</a> public meetings; nor is there anything more entirely foreign to us than affairs of state. We acknowledge one all-embracing commonwealth—the world. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter_XXXVIII" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter XXXVIII">Chapter 38</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>We renounce all your spectacles, as strongly as we renounce the matters originating them, which we know were conceived of superstition, when we give up the very things which are the basis of their representations. Among us nothing is ever said, or seen, or heard, which has anything in common with the madness of the circus, the immodesty of the theatre, the atrocities of the arena, the useless exercises of the wrestling-ground.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter_XXXVIII" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter XXXVIII">Chapter 38</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Vide, inquiunt, ut invicem se diligant; ipsi enim invicem oderunt: et ut pro alterutro mori sint parati; ipsi enim ad occidendum alterutrum paratiores erunt.</i> <ul><li><i>See</i>, they say, <i>how they love one another</i>, for themselves are animated by mutual hatred; how they are ready even to die for one another, for they themselves will sooner put to <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter_XXXIX" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter XXXIX">Chapter 39, describing how Christianity is mocked by its enemies.</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Neque enim Brachmanae aut Indorum gymnosophistae sumus, silvicolae et exules vitae. Meminimus gratiam debere nos deo domino creatori; nullum fructum operum eius repudiamus, plane temperamus, ne[c] ultra modum aut perperam utamur. Itaque non sine foro, non sine macello, non sine balneis tabernis officinis stabulis nundinis vestris ceterisque commerciis cohabitamus in hoc saeculo.</i><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.tertullian.org/latin/apologeticum_becker.htm">[1]</a> <ul><li>We are not Indian Brahmins or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnosophists" class="extiw" title="w:Gymnosophists">Gymnosophists</a>, who dwell in woods and exile themselves from ordinary human life. We do not forget the debt of gratitude we owe to God, our Lord and Creator; we reject no creature of His hands, though certainly we exercise restraint upon ourselves, lest of any gift of His we make an immoderate or sinful use. So we sojourn with you in the world. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter_XLII" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter XLII">Chapter 42</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Plures efficimur, quoties metimur a vobis; semen est sanguis christianorum.</i> <ul><li>We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is <a href="/wiki/Seed" title="Seed">seed</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter_L" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/Apology/Chapter L"><i>Apologeticus</i>, 50, s. 13</a></li></ul></li> <li>Often quoted as ‘The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.’</li> <li>Variant translation: As often as we are mown down by you, the more we grow in numbers; the blood of the Christians is the seed. Another common translation is "The blood of the Martyrs is the seed of Christians."</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="An_Answer_to_the_Jews"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0308.htm"><i>An Answer to the Jews</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: An Answer to the Jews"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/An_Answer_to_the_Jews" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/An Answer to the Jews">Adversus Judaeos (Against the Jews)</a>, here translated by Thelwall, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>For this fact—that Gentiles are admissible to God’s Law—is enough to prevent Israel from priding himself on the notion that “the Gentiles are accounted as a little drop of a bucket,” or else as “dust out of a threshing-floor:” although we have God Himself as an adequate engager and faithful promiser, in that He promised to Abraham that “in his seed should be blest all nations of the earth;” and that out of the womb of Rebecca “two peoples and two nations were about to proceed,”—of course those of the Jews, that is, of Israel; and of the Gentiles, that is ours. Each, then, was called a <i>people</i> and a <i>nation</i>; lest, from the nuncupative appellation, any should dare to claim for himself the privilege of grace. For God ordained “two peoples and two nations” as about to proceed out of the womb of one woman: nor did grace make distinction in the nuncupative appellation, but in the order of birth; to the effect that, which ever was to be prior in proceeding from the womb, should be subjected to “the less,” that is, the posterior. For thus unto Rebecca did God speak: “Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be divided from thy bowels; and people shall overcome people, and the greater shall serve the less.” Accordingly, since the <i>people</i> or <i>nation</i> of the Jews is anterior in time, and “greater” through the grace of primary favour in the Law, whereas ours is understood to be “less” in the age of times, as having in the last era of the world attained the knowledge of divine mercy: beyond doubt, through the edict of the divine utterance, the <i>prior</i> and “greater” people—that is, the Jewish—must necessarily serve the “less;” and the “less” people—that is, the Christian—overcome the “greater.” <b>For, withal, according to the memorial records of the divine Scriptures, the <i>people</i> of the Jews—that is, the more ancient—quite forsook God, and did degrading service to idols, and, abandoning the Divinity, was surrendered to images; while “the people” said to Aaron, “Make us gods to go before us.”</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/An_Answer_to_the_Jews/Occasion_of_Writing._Relative_Position_of_Jews_and_Gentiles_Illustrated" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/An Answer to the Jews/Occasion of Writing. Relative Position of Jews and Gentiles Illustrated">Chapter I.—Occasion of Writing. Relative Position of Jews and Gentiles Illustrated.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For in the beginning of the world He gave to Adam himself and Eve a law, that they were not to eat of the fruit of the tree planted in the midst of paradise; but that, if they did contrariwise, by death they were to die. Which law had continued enough for them, had it been kept. For in this law given to Adam we recognise in embryo all the precepts which afterwards sprouted forth when given through Moses; that is, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart and out of thy whole soul; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; Thou shalt not kill; Thou shalt not commit adultery; Thou shalt not steal; False witness thou shalt not utter; Honour thy father and mother; and, That which is another’s, shalt thou not covet. For the primordial law was given to Adam and Eve in paradise, as the womb of all the precepts of God. <b>In short, if they had loved the Lord their God, they would not have contravened His precept; if they had habitually loved their neighbour—that is, themselves—they would not have believed the persuasion of the serpent, and thus would not have committed murder upon themselves, by falling from immortality, by contravening God’s precept</b>; from theft also they would have abstained, if they had not stealthily tasted of the fruit of the tree, nor had been anxious to skulk beneath a tree to escape the view of the Lord their God; nor would they have been made partners with the falsehood-asseverating devil, by believing him that they would be “like God;” and thus they would not have offended God either, as their Father, who had fashioned them from clay of the earth, as out of the womb of a mother; if they had not coveted another’s, they would not have tasted of the unlawful fruit. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/An_Answer_to_the_Jews/The_Law_Anterior_to_Moses" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/An Answer to the Jews/The Law Anterior to Moses">Chapter II.—The Law Anterior to Moses.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And thus to the present moment they affirm that their Christ is not come, because He is not come in majesty; while they are ignorant of the fact that He was first to come in humility. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/An_Answer_to_the_Jews/Conclusion._Clue_to_the_Error_of_the_Jews" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/An Answer to the Jews/Conclusion. Clue to the Error of the Jews"> Chapter XIV.—Conclusion. Clue to the Error of the Jews.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_the_Apparel_of_Women"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0402.htm"><i>On the Apparel of Women</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: On the Apparel of Women"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_the_Apparel_of_Women" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On the Apparel of Women">De cultu feminarum</a> (On female fashion), here translated by Thelwall, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>And do you not know that you are (each) an Eve? The sentence of God on this sex of yours lives in this age: the guilt must of necessity live too. You are the devil’s gateway: you are the unsealer of that (forbidden) tree: you are the first deserter of the divine law: you are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily God’s image, man. On account of your desert—that is, death—even the Son of God had to die. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_the_Apparel_of_Women/I" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On the Apparel of Women/I">Modesty in Apparel Becoming to Women, in Memory of the Introduction of Sin into the World Through a Woman.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_the_Veiling_of_Virgins"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0403.htm"><i>On the Veiling of Virgins</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: On the Veiling of Virgins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_the_Veiling_of_Virgins" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On the Veiling of Virgins">De virginibus velandis</a> (On the veiling of virgins), here translated by Thelwall, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>But our Lord Christ has surnamed Himself Truth, not Custom. If Christ is always, and prior to all, equally truth is a thing sempiternal and ancient. Let those therefore look to themselves, to whom that is new which is intrinsically old. It is not so much novelty as truth which convicts heresies. Whatever savours of opposition to truth, this will be heresy, even (if it be an) ancient custom. <ul><li>Chapter 1, Truth Rather to Be Appealed to Than Custom, and Truth Progressive in Its Developments.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_Idolatry"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0302.htm"><i>On Idolatry</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: On Idolatry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ave-Caesar---Crown-copyright-jpg_141626.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Ave-Caesar---Crown-copyright-jpg_141626.jpg/220px-Ave-Caesar---Crown-copyright-jpg_141626.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="353" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Ave-Caesar---Crown-copyright-jpg_141626.jpg/330px-Ave-Caesar---Crown-copyright-jpg_141626.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Ave-Caesar---Crown-copyright-jpg_141626.jpg/440px-Ave-Caesar---Crown-copyright-jpg_141626.jpg 2x" data-file-width="934" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>Demons are the magistrates of this world: they bear the <i>fasces</i> … One soul cannot be due to two <i>masters</i>—God and Cæsar.</figcaption></figure> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/On_Idolatry" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/On Idolatry">De idolatria</a> (On Idolatry), here translated by Thelwall, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is <a href="/wiki/Idolatry" title="Idolatry">idolatry</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/On_Idolatry/Wide_Scope_of_the_Word_Idolatry" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/On Idolatry/Wide Scope of the Word Idolatry">Chapter I</a>, Wide Scope of the Word Idolatry, translated by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Thelwall" class="extiw" title="w:Sydney Thelwall">Rev. S. Thelwall</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If no <a href="/wiki/Divine_law" title="Divine law">law of God</a> had prohibited idols to be made by us; if no voice of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Spirit" title="Holy Spirit">Holy Spirit</a> uttered general menace no less against the makers than the worshippers of idols; from our sacrament itself we would draw our interpretation that arts of that kind are opposed to the faith. For how have we renounced the <a href="/wiki/Devil" title="Devil">devil</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Angels" title="Angels">angels</a>, if we make them? What divorce have we declared from them, I say not with whom, but dependent on whom, we live? What discord have we entered into with those to whom we are under obligation for the sake of our maintenance? Can you have denied with the tongue what with the hand you confess? unmake by word what by deed you make? preach one God, you who make so many? preach the true God, you who make false ones? "I make," says one, "but I worship not;" as if there were some cause for which he dare not worship, besides that for which he ought not also to make,--the offence done to God, namely, in either case. Nay, you who make, that they may be able to be worshipped, do worship; and you worship, not with the spirit of some worthless perfume, but with your own; nor at the expense of a beast's soul, but of your own. To them you immolate your ingenuity; to them you make your sweat a <a href="/wiki/Libation" title="Libation">libation</a>; to them you kindle the torch of your forethought. More are you to them than a priest, since it is by your means they have a priest; your diligence is their divinity. Do you affirm that you worship not what you make? Ah! but they affirm not so, to whom you slay this fatter, more precious and greater victim, your salvation. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/On_Idolatry/Idolatry_Condemned_by_Baptism._To_Make_an_Idol_Is,_in_Fact,_to_Worship_It" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/On Idolatry/Idolatry Condemned by Baptism. To Make an Idol Is, in Fact, to Worship It">Chapter VI</a>, translated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Thelwall" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sydney Thelwall">Sydney Thelwall</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Apologetics_and_Research_Ministry" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry">Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry</a></i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If we rejoice with the world, there is reason to fear that with the world we shall grieve too. But when the world rejoices, let us grieve; and when the world afterward grieves, we shall rejoice. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/On_Idolatry/Of_the_Observance_of_Days_Connected_with_Idolatry" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/On Idolatry/Of the Observance of Days Connected with Idolatry">Chapter XIII</a>, Of the Observance of Days Connected with Idolatry</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Ceterum purpura uel cetera insignia dignitatum et potestatum insertae dignitati et potestatibus idololatriae ab initio dicata habent profanationis suae maculam, cum praeterea ipsis etiam idolis induantur praetextae et trabeae et laticlaui, fasces quoque et uirgae praeferantur, et merito. Nam daemonia magistratus sunt saeculi huius ; unius collegii insignia fasces et purpuras gestant.</i> <ul><li>But the purple, or the other ensigns of dignities and powers, dedicated from the beginning to idolatry engrafted on the dignity and the powers, carry the spot of their own profanation; since, moreover, bordered and striped togas, and broad-barred ones, are put even on idols themselves; and <i>fasces</i> also, and rods, are borne before them; and deservedly, for <b><a href="/wiki/Demons" class="mw-redirect" title="Demons">demons</a> are the magistrates of this world: they bear the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fasces" class="extiw" title="w:fasces"><i>fasces</i></a></b> and the purples, the ensigns of one college. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/On_Idolatry/Dress_as_Connected_with_Idolatry" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/On Idolatry/Dress as Connected with Idolatry">Chapter XVIII</a>, Dress as Connected with Idolatry</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If, also, He exercised no right of power even over His own followers, to whom He discharged menial ministry; if, in short, though conscious of His own kingdom, He shrank back from being made a king, He in the fullest manner gave His own an example for turning coldly from all the pride and garb, as well of dignity as of power. For <i>if they were to be used</i>, who would rather have used them than the Son of God? What kind and what number of <i>fasces</i> would escort Him? what kind of purple would bloom from His shoulders? what kind of gold would beam from His head, had He not judged the glory of the world to be alien both to Himself and to His? Therefore what He was unwilling to accept, He has rejected; what He rejected, He has condemned; what He condemned, He has counted as part of the devil’s pomp. For He would not have condemned things, except such as were not His; but things which are not God’s, can be no other’s but the devil’s. If you have forsworn “the devil’s pomp,” know that whatever there you touch is idolatry. <b>Let even this fact help to remind you that all the powers and dignities of this world are not only alien to, but enemies of, God; that through them punishments have been determined against God’s servants; through them, too, penalties prepared for the impious are ignored.</b> But “both your birth and your substance are troublesome to you in resisting idolatry.” For avoiding it, remedies cannot be lacking; since, even if they be lacking, there remains that one by which you will be made a happier magistrate, not in the earth, but in the heavens. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/On_Idolatry/Dress_as_Connected_with_Idolatry" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/On Idolatry/Dress as Connected with Idolatry">Chapter XVIII</a>, Dress as Connected with Idolatry</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>Non conuenit sacramento diuino et humano, signo Christi et signo diaboli, castris lucis et castris tenebrarum ; non potest una anima duobus deberi, deo et Caesari. Et uirgam portauit Moyses, fibulam et Aaron, cingitur loro et Iohannes, agmen agit et Iesus Naue, bellauit et populus, si placet ludere. Quomodo autem bellabit, immo quomodo etiam in pace militabit sine gladio, quem dominus abstulit ? Nam etsi adierant milites ad Iohannem et formam obseruationis acceperant, si etiam centurio crediderat, omnem postea militem dominus in Petro exarmando discinxit. Nullus habitus licitus est apud nos illicito actui adscriptus.</i> <ul><li>There is no agreement between the divine and the human sacrament, the standard of Christ and the standard of the devil, the camp of light and the camp of darkness. <b>One soul cannot be due to two <i>masters</i>—God and Cæsar.</b> And yet Moses carried a rod, and Aaron wore a buckle, and John (Baptist) is girt with leather and Joshua the Son of Nun leads a line of march; and the People warred: if it pleases you to sport with the subject. But how will <i>a Christian man</i> war, nay, how will he serve even in peace, without a sword, which the Lord has taken away? For albeit soldiers had come unto John, and had received the formula of their rule; albeit, likewise, a centurion had believed; <i>still</i> the Lord afterward, in disarming Peter, unbelted every soldier. No dress is lawful among us, if assigned to any unlawful action. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/On_Idolatry/Concerning_Military_Service" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/On Idolatry/Concerning Military Service">Chapter XIX</a>, Concerning Military Service</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Chaplet"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0304.htm"><i>The Chaplet</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: The Chaplet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/The_Chaplet,_or_De_Corona" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/The Chaplet, or De Corona">De Corona</a> (The Chaplet), here translated by Thelwall, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The argument for Christian practices becomes all the stronger, when also nature, which is the first rule of all, supports them. Well, she is the first who lays it down that a crown does not become the head. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/The_Chaplet,_or_De_Corona/Chapter_V" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/The Chaplet, or De Corona/Chapter V">Chapter V</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But everything which is against nature deserves to be branded as monstrous among all men; but with us it is to be condemned also as sacrilege against God, the Lord and Creator of nature. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/The_Chaplet,_or_De_Corona/Chapter_V" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/The Chaplet, or De Corona/Chapter V">Chapter V</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Do we believe it lawful for a human oath to be superadded to one divine, for a man to come under promise to another master after Christ, and to abjure father, mother, and all nearest kinsfolk, whom even the law has commanded us to honour and love next to God Himself, to whom the gospel, too, holding them only of less account than Christ, has in like manner rendered honour? <b>Shall it be held lawful to make an occupation of the sword, when the Lord proclaims that he who uses the sword shall perish by the sword? And shall the son of peace take part in the battle when it does not become him even to sue at law? And shall he apply the chain, and the prison, and the torture, and the punishment, who is not the avenger even of his own wrongs?</b> Shall he, forsooth, either keep watch-service for others more than for Christ, or shall he do it on the Lord’s day, when he does not even do it for Christ Himself? And shall he keep guard before the temples which he has renounced? And shall he take a meal where the apostle has forbidden him? And shall he diligently protect by night those whom in the day-time he has put to flight by his exorcisms, leaning and resting on the spear the while with which Christ’s side was pierced? <b>Shall he carry a flag, too, hostile to Christ?</b> And shall <i>he</i> ask a watchword from the emperor who has already received one from God? Shall <i>he</i> be disturbed in death by the trumpet of the trumpeter, who expects to be aroused by the angel’s trump? And shall the Christian be burned according to camp rule, when he was not permitted to burn incense to an idol, when to him Christ remitted the punishment of fire? <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Apologetic/The_Chaplet,_or_De_Corona/Chapter_XI" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Apologetic/The Chaplet, or De Corona/Chapter XI">Chapter XI</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="On_Monogamy"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0406.htm%7C"><i>On Monogamy</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: On Monogamy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Monogamy" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Monogamy">De monogamia</a> (On marrying only once), here translated by Thelwall, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>Heretics do away with marriages; Psychics accumulate them. The former marry not <i>even</i> once; the latter not <i>only</i> once. What dost thou, Law of the Creator? Between <a href="/wiki/Alien" class="mw-disambig" title="Alien">alien</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/eunuch" class="extiw" title="w:eunuch">eunuchs</a> and thine own grooms, thou complainest as much of the over-obedience of thine own household as of the contempt of strangers. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Monogamy/Chapter_1" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Monogamy/Chapter 1">Chapter 1</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And so they upbraid the discipline of monogamy with being a heresy; nor is there any other cause whence they find themselves compelled to deny the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraclete" class="extiw" title="w:Paraclete">Paraclete</a> more than the fact that they esteem Him to be the institutor of a novel discipline, and a discipline which they find most harsh: so that this is already the first ground on which we must join issue in a general handling (of the subject), whether there is room for maintaining that the Paraclete has taught any such thing as can either be charged with novelty, in opposition to <a href="/wiki/Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic">catholic</a> <a href="/wiki/Tradition" title="Tradition">tradition</a>, or with burdensomeness, in opposition to the “light burden” of the Lord. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Monogamy/Chapter_2" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Monogamy/Chapter 2">Chapter 2</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>This (even) broader assertion we make: that even if the Paraclete had in this our day definitely prescribed a virginity or continence total and absolute, so as not to permit the heat of the flesh to foam itself down even in single marriage, even thus He would seem to be introducing nothing of “novelty;” seeing that the Lord Himself opens “the kingdoms of the heavens” to “eunuchs,” as being Himself, withal, a <a href="/wiki/Virgin" class="mw-redirect" title="Virgin">virgin</a>; to whom looking, the apostle also—himself too for this reason abstinent—gives the preference to continence. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Monogamy/Chapter_3" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Monogamy/Chapter 3">Chapter 3</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Herein also you ought to recognise the Paraclete in His character of Comforter, in that He excuses your infirmity from (the stringency of) an absolute continence. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Monogamy/Chapter_3" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Monogamy/Chapter 3">Chapter 3</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For it makes no difference whether a man have had two wives singly, or whether individuals (taken) at the same time have made two. The number of (the individuals) conjoined and separate is the same. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Monogamy/Chapter_4" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Monogamy/Chapter 4">Chapter 4</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But, presenting to your weakness the gift of the example of His own flesh, the more perfect Adam—that is, Christ, more perfect on this account as well (as on others), that He was more entirely pure—stands before you, if you are willing (to copy Him), as a voluntary celibate in the flesh. If, however, you are unequal (to that perfection), He stands before you a monogamist in spirit, having one Church as His spouse, according to the figure of Adam and of Eve, which (figure) the apostle interprets of that great sacrament of Christ and the Church, (teaching that), through the spiritual, it was analogous to the carnal monogamy. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Monogamy/Chapter_5" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Monogamy/Chapter 5">Chapter 5</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Else, if it be the later Abraham whom you follow as your father—that is, the digamist (Abraham)—receive him withal in his circumcision. If you reject his circumcision, it follows that you will refuse his digamy too. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Monogamy/Chapter_6" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Monogamy/Chapter 6">Chapter 6</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>And if I glance around at their examples—(examples) of some David's heaping up marriages for himself even through sanguinary means, of some Solomon rich in wives as well as in other riches—you are bidden to “follow the better things;” and you have withal Joseph but once wedded, and on this score I venture to say better than his father; you have Moses, the intimate eye-witness of God; you have Aaron the chief priest. The second Moses, also, of the second People, who led our representatives into the (possession of) the promise of God, in whom the Name (of Jesus) was first inaugurated, was no digamist. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Monogamy/Chapter_6" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Monogamy/Chapter 6">Chapter 6</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>So true, moreover, is it that divorce “was not from the beginning,” that among the Romans it is not till after the six hundredth year from the building of the city that this kind of “hard-heartedness” <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_ancient_Rome#Divorce" class="extiw" title="w:Marriage in ancient Rome">is set down as having been committed</a>. But <i>they</i> indulge in promiscuous adulteries, even without divorcing (their partners): to <i>us</i>, even if we do divorce them, even marriage will not be lawful. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Monogamy/Chapter_9" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Monogamy/Chapter 9">Chapter 9</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>For whence is it that the bishops and clergy come? Is it not from <i>all</i>? If <i>all</i> are not bound to monogamy, whence are monogamists (to be taken) into the clerical rank? Will some separate order of monogamists have to be instituted, from which to make selection for the clerical body? (No); but when we are extolling and inflating ourselves in opposition to the clergy, then “we are all one:” then “we are all priests, because He hath made us priests to (His) God and Father.” <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Monogamy/Chapter_12" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Monogamy/Chapter 12">Chapter 12</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To speak plainly, if they who reproach us with harshness, or esteem heresy (to exist) in this (our) cause, foster the “infirmity of the flesh” to such a degree as to think it must have support accorded to it in frequency of marriage; why do they in another case neither accord it support nor foster it with indulgence—when, (namely), torments have reduced it to a denial (of the faith)? For, of course, that (infirmity) is more capable of excuse which has fallen in battle, than (that) which (has fallen) in the bed-chamber; (that) which has succumbed on the rack, than (that) which (has succumbed) on the bridal bed; (that) which has yielded to cruelty, than (that) which (has yielded) to appetite; that which has been overcome groaning, than (that) which (has been overcome) in heat. But <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novatianism" class="extiw" title="w:Novatianism">the former they excommunicate</a>, because it has not “endured unto the end:” the latter they prop up, as if withal it has “endured unto the end.” <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/On_Monogamy/Chapter_15" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/On Monogamy/Chapter 15">Chapter 15</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="To_His_Wife"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0404.htm"><i>To His Wife</i></a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: To His Wife"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><dl><dd><small><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/To_His_Wife" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/To His Wife">Ad uxorem</a> (To my wife), here translated by Thelwall, <i>ibid</i></small></dd></dl></dd></dl> <ul><li>The virgin may possibly be held the happier, but the <i>widow</i> the more hardly tasked; the former in that she has always kept “the good,” the latter in that she has found “the good for herself.” In the former it is grace, in the latter virtue, that is crowned. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/To_His_Wife/I" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/To His Wife/I">To His Wife - Book 1</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/To_His_Wife/I/Chapter_8" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/To His Wife/I/Chapter 8">Chapter VIII.—Conclusion.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Both (are) brethren, both fellow servants, no difference of spirit or of flesh; nay, (they are) truly “two in one flesh.” Where the flesh is one, one is the spirit too. Together they pray, together prostrate themselves, together perform their fasts; mutually teaching, mutually exhorting, mutually sustaining. Equally (are they) both (found) in the Church of God; equally at the banquet of God; equally in straits, in persecutions, in refreshments. Neither hides (ought) from the other; neither shuns the other; neither is troublesome to the other. The sick is visited, the indigent relieved, with freedom. Alms (are given) without (danger of ensuing) torment; sacrifices (attended) without scruple; daily diligence (discharged) without impediment: (there is) no stealthy signing, no trembling greeting, no mute benediction. Between the two echo psalms and hymns; and they mutually challenge each other which shall better chant to their Lord. Such things when Christ sees and hears, He joys. To these He sends His own peace. Where two (are), there withal (is) He Himself. Where He (is), there the Evil One is not. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/To_His_Wife/II" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/To His Wife/II">To His Wife - Book 2</a>, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_IV/Tertullian:_Part_Fourth/To_His_Wife/II/Chapter_8" class="extiw" title="s:Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Tertullian: Part Fourth/To His Wife/II/Chapter 8">Chapter VIII.—Arguments Drawn Even from Heathenish Laws to Discountenance Marriage with Unbelievers. The Happiness of Union Between Partners in the Faith Enlarged on in Conclusion.</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p><br /></p><div style="padding: .5em; border: 1px solid black; background-color: #FCFCCC;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Attributed">Attributed</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Attributed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The Jews formed the breeding ground of all anti-Christian actions. <ul><li>See <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com.br/books?id=HCucAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA312">In His Name</a></i> by E. Christopher Reyes, Volume IV, p. 312</li></ul></li></ul> </div> <p><br /></p><div style="padding: .5em; border: 1px solid black; background-color: #FFE7CC;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Misattributed">Misattributed</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Misattributed"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scutum_fidei_LAT.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Scutum_fidei_LAT.svg/220px-Scutum_fidei_LAT.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Scutum_fidei_LAT.svg/330px-Scutum_fidei_LAT.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Scutum_fidei_LAT.svg/440px-Scutum_fidei_LAT.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="536" /></a><figcaption>We worship <a href="/wiki/Unity" title="Unity">unity</a> in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the <a href="/wiki/Person" class="mw-redirect" title="Person">person</a> nor dividing the substance.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance.</b> There is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the <a href="/wiki/Godhead" title="Godhead">Godhead</a> of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the <a href="/wiki/Glory" title="Glory">glory</a> equal, the majesty co-eternal. <ul><li>As quoted in <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 285</li> <li>Actually from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasian_Creed" class="extiw" title="w:Athanasian Creed">Athanasian Creed</a>: Fides autem catholica haec est: ut unum Deum in Trinitate, et Trinitatem in unitate veneremur. Neque confundentes personas, neque substantiam separantes. Alia est enim persona Patris alia Filii, alia Spiritus Sancti: Sed Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti una est divinitas, aequalis gloria, coeterna maiestas.</li></ul></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_about_Tertullian">Quotes about Tertullian</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Quotes about Tertullian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>This is said with more spirit than truth. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">St. Augustine</a> on some of Tertullian's bolder statements.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Galileo_Galilei" title="Galileo Galilei">Galileo</a> ... quoted by way of orthodox support Tertullian's dictum that we know God first by nature, then by revelation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Arthur_Burtt" title="Edwin Arthur Burtt">Edwin Arthur Burtt</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Metaphysical_Foundations_of_Modern_Physical_Science" title="The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science">The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science</a></i> (1925)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In the case of Tertullian we praise his great talent, but we condemn <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montanism" class="extiw" title="w:Montanism">his heresy</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/St._Jerome" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Jerome">St. Jerome</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/27103.htm"><i>Apology Against Rufinus</i>, Book III</a>, sec. 27</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>To me he is the born arguer, who talks himself, rather than thinks himself, into extreme positions, and is too dazzled by his own eloquence to recede from them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Knox" title="Ronald Knox">Ronald Knox</a>, <i>Enthusiasm</i> (Oxford University Press, 1950), p. 45.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Tertullian is racy; alone, perhaps, among the <a href="/wiki/Church_Fathers" title="Church Fathers">Fathers</a>, he has the makings of a journalist. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Knox" title="Ronald Knox">Ronald Knox</a>, <i>Enthusiasm</i> (Oxford University Press, 1950), p. 45.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Every word almost was a sentence; every sentence a victory. <ul><li>St. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_of_L%C3%A9rins" class="extiw" title="w:Vincent of Lérins">Vincent of Lerins</a> on his esteem of Tertullian's writings.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tertullian&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; 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