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Jerome — Principal Works • SECTION 14

Letter IV. To Florentius.

… A countryman of the aforesaid brother Rufinus, the old man Paul, [78] writes that Rufinus has his copy of Tertullian, and urgently requests that this may be returned. Next I have to ask you to …

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Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 170

Epistle II. [2127]

… l. [2120] [Compare Tertullian, vol. iii. pp. 87 et seqq.] [2121] [Rom. i. 26, 27. The enormous extent of this diabolical form of lust is implied in all these patristic rebukes.] [2122] The dresses of …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 124

Chapter XXI.--The Ecclesiastical Writers that flourished in Those Days.

… But all this has no weight at all, when measured against the silence of Tertullian, Hippolytus, Eusebius, and all the earlier Fathers. Their silence must be accepted as conclusive evidence that he was not a …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 20

Chapter XXIII.

… a follower of Christ, who desires to prove to you the Truth, it were at all possible for them to lie. [112] [This testimony must be noted as something of which Tertullian confidently challenges denial.]

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 386

Chapter II.

… 1. [8238] Of course our division of the Scripture by chapter and verse did not exist in the days of Tertullian.--Tr. [8239] Deut. xiii. 6. [8240] Deut. xiii. 16. [8241] Deut. xxvii. 15. [8242 …

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The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr & Irenaeus • SECTION 274

Chapter XXV.--Doctrines of Carpocrates.

… 58, 59. [2953] The meaning is here very doubtful, but Tertullian understood the words as above. If sinning were a necessity, then it could no longer be regarded as evil. [2954] [This censure of images …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 399

Chapter III.--Carpocrates, Cerinthus, Ebion.

… The name "Achamoth" itself, which Tertullian (adv. Valentin. c. xiv. ad init.) calls an "uninterpretable name," is believed to be a representation of a Hebrew word meaning "wisdom;" and hence, possibly, some of the confusion …

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Hilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 33

[353] Ib. cxix. 19 (12).

… It is more significant that Tertullian, Pud. 19, classes breach of trust and lying among slight sins which may happen to anyone any day. This was in his strictest and most censorious period. There are …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 19

Canon XII.

… The case of Cornelius was borne in mind. "We serve in your armies," says Tertullian, Apol. 42 (although later, as a Montanist, he took a rigorist and fanatical view, De Cor. 11), and compare the …

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Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 5

Chapter V.--Virtues of the Mantle. It Pleads in Its Own Defence.

… Of course the meaning is, "on the doffing of which a man congratulates himself more," etc.; but Tertullian as it were personifies the act of doffing, and represents it as congratulating the doffer; and I …

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Tertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 234

[3648] Si utique.

… 305, is again quoted by Tertullian in his De Anima, chap. v. (Oehler). [3690] Luke iv. 40. [3691] See Isa. liii. 4. [3692] Interim. [3693] Luke iv. 41. [3694] Proinde enim. [3695] Illius erat. [3696 …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 158

Chapter XXI.--How Appolonius suffered Martyrdom at Rome.

… had been misunderstood by the Christians, and had given rise to the tradition, which is found in Tertullian and in the Edictum ad Comm. Asiæ, that an emperor at this period had decreed the punishment …

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