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Title: An Answer to the Jews
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64-...Excerpt: IT happened very recently a dispute was held between a Christian and a Jewish proselyte. Alternately with contentious cable they each spun out the day until evening. By the opposing din, moreover, of some partisans of the ind... | | |
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...Table of Contents: AN ANSWER TO THE JEWS, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- VII. AN ANSWER TO THE JEWS.(1), 1 -- Chapter I. OCCASION OF WRITING. RELATIVE POSITIONOF JEWS AND GENTILES ILLUS... | | |
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Title: De Fuga in Persecutione
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278-...lee in persecution For my part, having on the spot made some observations in the negative suited to the place and time, I also, owing to the rudeness of some persons, took away with me the subject but half treated, meaning to set it forth now more fully by my pen; for your inquiry had interested me in it, and the state... | | |
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Table of Contents: DE FUGA IN PERSECUTIONE, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 | | |
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Title: The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas
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21-...Excerpt: THE PASSION OF THE HOLY MARTYRS PERPETUA AND FELICITAS. Preface.[1] IF ancient illustrations of faith which both testify to God?s grace and tend to man?s edification are collected in... | | |
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...Table of Contents: THE PASSION OF THE HOLY MARTYRS PERPETUA AND FELICITAS, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- THE PASSION OF THE HOLY MARTYRS PERPETUA AND FELICITAS, 1 -- Chapter I. ARGUMEN... | | |
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Title: Spectacles
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44-...Excerpt: Chapter One. Learn, O you servants of God who are just now entering upon His service, and you who have already solemnly sworn allegiance to Him recall what principle of faith, what reason inherent in truth... | | |
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...Table of Contents: SPECTACLES, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- Chapter 1, 1 -- Chapter 2, 2 -- Chapter 3, 3 -- Chapter 4, 4 -- Chapter 5, 5 -- Chapter 6, 6 -- Chapter 7, 6 -- Chapter 8, ... | | |
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Title: Vi. On Monogamy
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...Table of Contents: VI. ON MONOGAMY, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- Chapter I. DIFFERENT VIEWS IN REGARD TO MARRIAGE HELD BY HERETICS, PSYCHIC, AND SPIRITUALISTS. -- Chapter II. THE SPIR... | | |
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Title: Of Patience
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20-...Excerpt: Chapter 1. OF PATIENCE GENERALLY; AND TERTULLIAN?S OWN UNWORTHINESS TO TREAT OF IT. I FULLY confess unto the Lord God that it has been rash enough, if not even impudent, in me to ha... | | |
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...Table of Contents: OF PATIENCE, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- Chapter I. OF PATIENCE GENERALLY; AND TERTULLIAN'S OWN UNWORTHINESS TO TREAT OF Chapter II. GOD HIMSELF AN EXAMPLE OF PATI... | | |
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Title: On Modesty
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39-Excerpt: But even the old has examples of vengeance upon such offences. | | |
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...Table of Contents: ON MODESTY, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- VII, 1 -- Chapter II. GOD JUST AS WELL AS MERCIFUL; ACCORDINGLY, MERCY MUST NOT BE INDISCRIMINATE. -- Chapter III. AN OBJEC... | | |
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Title: On Fasting
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31-...Excerpt: Chapter 1. CONNECTION OF GLUTTONY AND LUST. GROUNDS OF PSYCHICAL OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MONTANISTS. I Should wonder at the Psyc.; since these two are so united and... | | |
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...Table of Contents: ON FASTING, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- VIII. ON FASTING.(1), 1 -- Chapter I. CONNECTION OF GLUTTONY AND LUST. GROUNDS OF PSYCHICAL OBJECTIONS AGAINST Chapter II. ... | | |
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Title: On the Pallium
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68-...Excerpt: Chapter 1. TIME CHANGES NATIONS? DRESSES AND FORTUNES, MEN of Carthage, ever princes of Africa, ennobled by ancient memories, blest with modern felicities, I rejoice that times are so prosperous with you that you have leisure to ... | | |
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...Table of Contents: ON THE PALLIUM, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- ON THE PALLIUM.[1], 1 -- Chapter I. TIME CHANGES NATIONS' DRESSES AND FORTUNES, 1 -- Chapter II. THE LAW OF CHANGE, O... | | |
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Title: Iii. On the Veiling of Virgins
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289-...uble peculiar to my opinion, I will show in Latin also that it behoves our virgins to be veiled from the time that they have passed the turning?point of their age: that this observance is exacted by truth, on which no one can impose prescription no space of times, no influence of persons, no privilege of regions. For t... | | |
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... Table of Contents: III. ON THE VEILING OF VIRGINS, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- Chapter I. TRUTH RATHER TO BE APPEALED TO THAN CUSTOM, AND TRUTH PROGRESSIVE IN Chapter II. BEFORE PROC... | | |
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Title: The Apparel of Women
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138-...Excerpt: BOOK ONE. Chapter One. If there existed upon earth a faith in proportion to the reward that faith will receive in heaven, no one of you, my beloved sisters, from the time when you came to know the living God and recognized your own state, that is, the condition of being a woman, would have desired ... | | |
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...Table of Contents: THE APPAREL OF WOMEN, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- BOOK ONE, 1 -- Chapter 1, 1 -- Chapter 2, 2 -- Chapter 3, 3 -- Chapter 4, 3 -- Chapter 5, 4 -- Chapter 6, 4 -- Ch... | | |
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Title: Against All Heresies
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131-...Excerpt: Chapter 1. EARLIEST HERETICS:[2] SIMON MAGUS, MENANDER, SATURNINUS, BASILIDES, NICOLAUS. [The WORK BEGINS AS A FRAGMENT.] Of which heretics I will (to pass by a good deal) summarize some few particulars. For of Judaism?s heretics I am silent Dositheus the Samaritan, I mean, who was the first... | | |
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...Table of Contents: AGAINST ALL HERESIES, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- AGAINST ALL HERESIES.[1], 1 -- Chapter I. EARLIEST HERETICS:[2] SIMON MAGUS, MENANDER, SATURNINUS, BASILIDES, NIC... | | |
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Title: On Repentance
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20-...Excerpt: Chapter 1. OF HEATHEN REPENTANCE. Repentance, men understand, so far as nature is able, to be an emotion of the mind arising from disgust? at some previously cherished worse sentime... | | |
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...Table of Contents: ON REPENTANCE, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- Chapter I. OF HEATHEN REPENTANCE, 1 -- Chapter II. TRUE REPENTANCE A THING DIVINE, ORIGINATED BY GOD, AND SUBJECT TO HIS... | | |
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Title: Scorpiace
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137-...Excerpt: THE earth brings forth, as if by suppuration, great evil from the diminutive scorpion. The poisons are as many as are the kinds of it, the disasters as many as are also the species of it, the pains as many as are also the colours of it. Nicander writes an the subject of scorpions, and depicts them... | | |
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... Table of Contents: SCORPIACE, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- VIII. SCORPIACE, 1 -- Chapter I, 1 -- Chapter II, 3 -- Chapter III, 4 -- Chapter IV, 5 -- Chapter V, 5 -- Chapter VI, 7 -- C... | | |
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Title: To Scapula
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107-...Excerpt: WE are not in any great perturbation or alarm about the persecutions we suffer from the ignorance of men; for we have attached ourselves to this sect, fully accepting the terms of its covenant, so that, as men whose very lives are not their own, we engage in these con... | | |
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...Table of Contents: TO SCAPULA, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- V. TO SCAPULA.(1), 1 -- Chapter I, 1 -- Chapter II, 1 -- Chapter III, 2 -- Chapter IV, 3 -- Chapter V, 4 -- ELUCIDATIONS, 4... | | |
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Title: On Prayer
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...Table of Contents: ON PRAYER, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- III. ON PRAYER, 1 -- Chapter I. GENERAL Introduction.[1], 1 -- Chapter II. THE FIRST CLAUSE, 2 -- Chapter III. THE SECOND CL... | | |
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Title: Iv. To His Wife
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27-...Excerpt: Chapter 1. DESIGN OF THE TREATISE. DISAVOWAL OF PERSONAL MOTIVES IN WRITING IT. I HAVE thought it meet, my best beloved fellow?servant in the Lord, even from this early period,[2] to provi... | | |
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...Table of Contents: IV. TO HIS WIFE, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- IV. TO HIS WIFE.[1], 1 -- BOOK I, 1 -- Chapter I. DESIGN OF THE TREATISE. DISAVOWAL OF PERSONAL MOTIVES IN WRITING IT.... | | |
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Title: The Soul's Testimony
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29-...Excerpt: IF, with the object of convicting the rivals and persecutors of Christian truth, from their own authorities, of the crime of at once being untrue to themselves and doing injustice to us, one... | | |
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...Table of Contents: THE SOUL'S TESTIMONY, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- VIII. THE SOUL'S TESTIMONY.(1), 1 -- Chapter I, 1 -- Chapter II, 2 -- Chapter III, 3 -- Chapter IV, 3 -- Chapter ... | | |
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Title: Against Marcion, V1
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...Table of Contents: AGAINST MARCION, v1, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- BOOK I.(1), 3 -- Chapter I. Preface, REASON FOR A NEW WORK PONTUS LENDS ITS ROUGH CHARACTER TO THE Chapter II. MAR... | | |
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Title: The Chaplet, Or de Corona
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101-...Excerpt: IV. THE CHAPLET, OR DE CORONA.(1) Chapter 1. VERY lately it happened thus: while the bounty of our most excellent emperors(2) was dispensed in the camp, the soldiers, laurel?crowned, were approaching. One of them, more a soldier of God, more stedfast than the re... | | |
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...Table of Contents: THE CHAPLET, OR DE CORONA, 1 -- Tertullian, 1 -- IV. THE CHAPLET, OR DE CORONA.(1), 1 -- Chapter I, 1 -- Chapter II, 2 -- Chapter III, 2 -- Chapter IV, 3 -- ... | | |
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