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Feb 3, 1998 · We shall reply to the accusation of all the various crimes we are said to be guilty of in secret, such as we find them committing in the light of day, and as being guilty of which we are held to be wicked, senseless, worthy of punishment, deserving of ridicule.
- Elucidations I
Elucidations. I. Arrangement, p. 4, supra. The arrangement I...
- Elucidations I
Nov 8, 2002 · The immediate purpose of the APOLOGY was to protest against the wholesale condemnation of a body of men on the mere presumption of a criminality which had never been proved. The inveterate hostility manifested towards the Christians forbade them the rights even of ordinary criminals.
28 Tertullian's Apology for the Christians. suppose a Christian promising you eternal life, and tying caution for the performance, upon consideration of your obedience.
He also writes an apology letter to Julian. Mr. Tushman writes Jack and says that he has some idea of what happened, and while he doesn't condone violence, he knows that good friends are worth defending.
Little is known with certainty about the life of Tertullian, who authored some of the very earliest Christian literature written in Latin. He was from the city of Carthage in Roman North Africa, and his literary career in this city spanned from roughly 196 to 212; he was perhaps born around 170.
I am more afraid of them than of Anytus and his associates, who are dangerous, too, in their own way. But far more dangerous are these, who began when you were children, and took possession of your minds with their falsehoods, telling of one Socrates, a wise man, who speculated about the heaven above, and searched into the earth beneath, and made the worse appear the better cause.
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For Christ called not the just nor the chaste to repentance, but the ungodly, and the licentious, and the unjust; His words being, I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Matthew 9:13 For the heavenly Father desires rather the repentance than the punishment of the sinner.
