Tertullian
Tertullian
Tertullian, full name Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, c. 155 – c. 240 AD, was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He is the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He also was a notable early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including contemporary Christian Gnosticism. Tertullian has been called "the father of Latin Christianity" and "the founder of Western theology."...
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prevention birth murder
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
possibility certain certitude
It is certain because it is possible.
office church speak
It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.
differences prevention birth
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
states impossibility
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
pleasure dies
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
freedom pieces parcel
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
marriage ends marrying
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
time fighting shrewdness
Those who fled will fight another time.
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
patience men he-man
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
nature evil shame
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
christian blood grows
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
evil violence forbidden
It is absolutely forbidden to repay evil with evil.