"If the Tiber rises too high, or the……" — Tertullian
"If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions."
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He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too,…
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Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come…
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Woman is a temple built over a sewer.
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If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks,…
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Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all…
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry.…
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[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps…
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In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while…
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Patience is God's nature.
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I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
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When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of…
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[T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three ... not in condition, but in degree; not in substance,…
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