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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scripture argument headache
Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.
errors truth-is customs
Custom without truth is error grown old.
wealth
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money
jerusalem athens
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
religious art divorce
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art.
lust soul maidens
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.
prevention birth murder
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
pleasure dies
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
states impossibility
The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.
possibility certain certitude
It is certain because it is possible.
absurd
It is to believed because it is absurd.
fire frying-pans thai
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
bible christian scripture
I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.
rivals violence flags
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.