TERTULLIAN - IV. THE CHAPLET, OR DE CORONA

CHAP. I. VERY lately it happened thus: while the bounty of our most excellent emperors(2) was dispensed in the camp, the soldiers, laurel-crowned, were approaching. One of them, more a soldier of God, more stedfast than the rest of his…

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TERTULLIAN - V. TO SCAPULA

[TRANSLATED BY THE REV. S. THELWALL.] CHAP. I. WE are not in any great perturbation or alarm about the persecutions we suffer from the ignorance of men; for we have attached ourselves to this sect, fully accepting the terms of…

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TERTULLIAN - VI. AD NATIONES - BOOK I

CHAP. I. —THE HATRED FELT BY THE HEATHEN AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS IS UNJUST, BECAUSE BASED ON CULPABLE IGNORANCE. ONE proof of that ignorance of yours, which condemns(3) whilst it excuses(4) your injustice, is at once apparent in the fact, that…

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TERTULLIAN - AD NATIONES - BOOK II

CHAP. I.—THE HEATHEN GODS FROM HEATHEN AUTHORITIES. VARRO HAS WRITTEN A WORK ON THE SUBJECT. HIS THREEFOLD CLASSIFICATION. THE CHANGEABLE CHARACTER OF THAT WHICH OUGHT TO BE FIXED AND CERTAIN. OUR defence requires that we should at this point discuss…

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TERTULLIAN - VII. AN ANSWER TO THE JEWS

TRANSLATED BY THE REV. S. THELWALL. CHAP. I.—OCCASION OF WRITING. RELATIVE POSITIONOF JEWS AND GENTILES ILLUSTRATED. IT happened very recently a dispute was held between a Christian and a Jewish proselyte. Alternately with contentious cable they each spun out the…

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TERTULLIAN - VIII. THE SOUL'S TESTIMONY

CHAP. I. IF, with the object of convicting the rivals and persecutors of Christian truth, from their own authorities, of the crime of at once being untrue to themselves and doing injustice to us, one is bent on gathering testimonies…

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TERTULLIAN - IX. A TREATISE ON THE SOUL

[TRANSLATED BY PETER HOLMES, D.D.] CHAP. I.—IT IS NOT TO THE PHILOSOPHERS THAT WE RESORT FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE SOUL BUT TO GOD.(2) HAVING discussed with Hermogenes the single point of the origin of the soul, so far as his…

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TERTULLIAN - AGAINST HERESIES

INTRODUCTION, BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. THE Second Class of Tertullian’s works, according to the logical method I have endeavoured to carry out, is that which includes his treatises against the heresies of his times. In these, the genius of our…

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