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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lust soul maidens
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.
teacher nature soul
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.
soul doe moments
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
blood soul body
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God
soul flesh birth
Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.
lying men causes
The Word, then, the Christ, is the cause both of our ancient beginning, for lie was in God, and of our well-being. And now this same Word has appeared as man. He alone is both God and man, and the source of all our good things
way earning usual
The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
christian blood seeds
The blood of Christians is seed.
prayer conquer one-thing
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God
long littles wander
Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.
sarcastic dog apostles
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.
impossible certain certainty
It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile
father son names
[T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three ... not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in form; not in power, but in aspect; yet of one substance, and of one condition, and of one power, inasmuch as He is one God, from whom these degrees and forms and aspects are reckoned, under the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
religious idols sea
Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe, and all things contained in the heaven, the sea, and the earth, that they might be consecrated as God in opposition to God." All things, therefore, does human error worship, except the Founder of all himself. The images of those things are idols; the consecration of the images is idolatry.