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The first three centuries were the formative period of Christianity. The developments during this time led to the distinction of canonical and non-canonical writings, to organizational structures of the Christian…
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Tertullian
This second volume in a four book series of the writings of Tertullian focuses on the teachings of a heretic named Marcion. This work mainly shows the error of Marcion's…
We, however, are not permitted to cherish any object(1) after our own will, nor yet to make choice of that which another has introduced of his private fancy. In the…
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You must know that in the eye of perfect, that is, Christian, modesty, (carnal) desire of one’s self (on the part of others) is not only not to be desired…
Tertullian's works are essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Christian theology. This collection of apologetic and practical treatises includes detailed discussions of topics such as the nature…
Modesty, the flower of manners, the honor of our bodies, the grace of the sexes, the integrity of the blood, the guarantee of our race, the basis of sanctity, the…
We ought not to be astonished at the heresies (which abound) neither ought their existence to surprise us, for it was foretold that they should come to pass; nor the…
The Five Books of Quintus Sept. Flor. Tertullianus against Marcion is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic…
If I must touch on their nuptial duties, there is Afterenda whose appointed function is to see to the offering of the dower; but fie on you! you have your…
Our heretic must now cease to borrow poison from the Jew– the asp, as the adage runs, from the viper (15)–and henceforth vomit forth the virulence of his own disposition…
For why should God, the founder of the universe, the Governor of the whole world,(4) the Fashioner of humanity,the Sower(5) of universal nations be believed to have given a law…
To reckon up the good, of repentance, the subject-matter is copious, and therefore should be committed to great eloquence. Let us, however, in proportion to our narrow abilities, inculcate one…
Hence it is that heretics start at once from this point,(1) from which they sketch the first draft of their dogmas, and afterwards add the details, being well aware how…
He cannot say that it was as its Lord that God employed Matter for His creative works, for He could not have been the Lord of a substance which was…
Not even that species of impatience under the loss of our dear ones is excused, where some assertion of a right to grief acts the patron to it. For the…
(4) But why are we a source of danger to others? Why do we excite concupiscence in others? If the Lord in amplifying the Law does not make a distinction…
For even by this very fact, that He exempts from eating that flesh only the ‘soul’ of which is not out-shed through ‘blood, ’ it is manifest that He has…
PMAlbeit Israel washed daily all his limbs over, yet is he never clean. His hands, at all events, are ever unclean, eternally dyed with the blood of the prophets, and…
Having sufficiently established the charge of idolatry, which alone ought to be reason enough for our giving up the shows, let us now ex abundanti look at the subject in…
If we think over the rest of faults, tracing them from their generations, let us begin with covetousness, a root of all evils, (5) wherewith, indeed, some having been ensnared…
Since(24) you think that this lay within the competency of your own arbitrary choice, you must needs have supposed that being born(25) was either impossible for God, or unbecoming to…
For before her doors it stands, and by the example of its own stigma admonishes all others, and calls at the same time to its own aid the brethren’s tears…
PMHe cannot say that it was as its Lord that God employed Matter for His creative works, for He could not have been the Lord of a substance which was…
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…
Besides, it would be a harsh and absurd proceeding to exempt anything from the class cf corporeal beings, on the ground that it is not exactly like the other constituents…
We are indeed said to be the third race of men. What, a dog-faced race? (16) Or broadly shadow-footed? (17) Or some subterranean(18) Antipodes? If you attach any meaning to…
Furthermore, with respect to the repentance which occurs in His conduct? (9) you interpret it with similar perverseness just as if it were with fickleness and improvidence that He repented…
We must follow, then, the clue(20) of our discussion, meeting every effort of our opponents with reciprocal vigor. I say that my Gospel is the true one; Marcion, that his…
The very stumbling-block which he declares Christ to be to the Jews, (16) points unmistakeably(17) to the Creator’s prophecy respecting Him, when by Isaiah He says: Behold I lay in…
He existed before the creation of the world, up to the generation of the Son. For before all things God was alone–being in Himself and for Himself universe, and space…
Now it is held amongst them, that, for the purpose of honouring the celestial marriages,(1) it is necessary to contemplate and celebrate the mystery always by cleaving to a companion…
To us continence has been pointed out by the Lord of salvation as an instrument for attaining eternity,(1) and as a testimony of (our) faith; as a commendation of this…
THE earth brings forth, as if by suppuration, great evil from the diminutive scorpion. The poisons are as many as are the kinds of it, the disasters as many as…
