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• Do you not know that you are Eve? The judgment of God upon this sex lives on in this age; therefore, necessarily the guilt should live on also. You are the gateway of the devil; you are the one who unseals the curse of that tree, and you are the first one to turn your back on the divine law; you are the one who persuaded him whom the devil was not capable of corrupting; you easily destroyed the image of God, Adam. Because of what you deserve, that is, death, even the Son of God had to die.

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  Sex, Son, Law

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• Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.

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  Prayer, Men, Moments

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.1269, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.

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  Jerusalem, Athens

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• The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God

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  Blood, Soul, Body

  Tertullian “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian, Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

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  Patience, Men, He Man

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• Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These three are one [thing], not one [Person], as it is said, 'I and my Father are One,' in respect of unity of substance not singularity of number.

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  Father, Son, Numbers

  Tertullian, Aeterna Press (2016). “Tertullian Collection [2 Books]”, p.62, Aeterna Press

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• The angels as the guardians of men are set over men as instructors and monitors. This shows the relationship that is to exist between them. Man's attitude is to be one of obedience and subjection. He is to follow the lead of the angels, and consequently some reverence is already implied in the very relationship that exists between man and angel.

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  Attitude, Angel, Men

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• The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel." "Since the Lord...after handling over the practice of prayer, said elsewhere, 'Ask and you will receive,' and since everyone has petitions which are peculiar to his circumstances, the regular and appropriate prayer (the Lord's Prayer) is said first, as the foundation of further desires.

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  Inspirational, Prayer, Practice

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• Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

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  Religious, Divorce, Vow

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• Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

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  Two, Kind, Blindness

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• I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.

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  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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• Illustrious confessors of Jesus Christ, a Christian finds in prison the same joys as the prophets tasted in the desert. Call it not a dungeon, but a solitude. When the soul is in heaven, the body feels not the weight of fetters; it carries the whole man along with it.

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  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events.

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  Christian, Evil, Events

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• Christians are made, not born.

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  Christian, Born, Made

  Tertullian, Robert Sider (2001). “Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire”, p.38, CUA Press

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• But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.

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  Military, Sacrifice, Punishment

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• To forbid birth is only quicker murder.

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  Abortion, Birth, Murder

  Tertullian (1960). “Octavius”

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• Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy

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  Philosophy, Heresy

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.462, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

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  Beautiful, Giving, Lust

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• We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, "We worship God through Christ!" Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.

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  Believe, Men, Belief

  Tertullian (1842). “Apologetic and Practical Treatises”, p.52

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• Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.

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  Flags, Rivals, Violence

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• It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

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  Impossible, Certain, Certainty

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• If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?

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  Christian, Sky, Earth

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• The blood of the Christians is seed

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  Christian, Blood, Seeds

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• Discipline is an index to doctrine.

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  Discipline, Doctrine

  "The Prescriptions Against the Heretics" by Tertullian, as translated by Stanley Lawrence Greenslade in "Early Latin Theology: Selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome" (p. 63), 1956.

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• [T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three ... not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in form; not in power, but in aspect; yet of one substance, and of one condition, and of one power, inasmuch as He is one God, from whom these degrees and forms and aspects are reckoned, under the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

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  Father, Son, Names

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