The Soul's Testimony by Tertullian, translated by the Rev. S. Thelwall CHAP. I. 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,...
Tertullian, An Answer to the Jews, translated by the Rev. S. Thelwall CHAP. I.--OCCASION OF WRITING. RELATIVE POSITION OF JEWS AND GENTILES ILLUSTRATED. IT happened very recently a dispute was held between a Christian and a Jewish proselyte. Alternately with...
Tertullian, Ad Nationes, Book 2 CHAP. I.--THE HEATHEN GODS FROM HEATHEN AUTHORITIES. VARRO HAS WRITTEN A WORK ON THE SUBJECT. HIS THREEFOLD CLASSIFICATION. THE CHANGEABLE CHARACTER OF THAT WHICH OUGHT TO BE FIXED AND CERTAIN. OUR defence requires that we should at...
Tertullian, Ad Nationes, Book 1 CHAP. I.(2)--THE HATRED FELT BY THE HEATHEN AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS IS UNJUST, BECAUSE BASED ON CULPABLE IGNORANCE. ONE proof of that ignorance of yours, which condemns(3) whilst it excuses(4) your injustice, is at once apparent in the...
Tertullian, To Scapula, Translated by the Rev. S. Thelwall CHAP. I. 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...
Tertullian's De Corona, or "The Chaplet" CHAP. I. 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...
De Spectaculis, or "The Shows," by Tertullian. Translated by the Rev. S. Thelwall CHAP. I. Ye Servants of God, about to draw near to God. that you may make solemn consecration of yourselves to Him,(2) seek well to understand the condition of faith, the reasons of the...
Tertullian on Idolatry CHAP. I.--WIDE SCOPE OF THE WORD IDOLATRY. The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry.(1) For, although each single fault retains its own proper feature,...
The Apology of Tertullian, Part 2 (Chapters 24-50). CHAP. XXIV. This whole confession of these beings, in which they declare that they are not gods, and in which they tell you that there is no God but one, the God whom we adore, is quite sufficient to clear us from...
The Apology of Tertullian, Part 1 (Chapters 1-23) THE APOLOGY.(1) CHAP. I. Rulers of the Roman Empire, if, seated for the administration of justice on your lofty tribunal, under the gaze of every eye, and occupying there all but the highest position in the state, you...