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.
wealth
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money
jerusalem athens
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.
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.
rivals violence flags
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.