Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.vii Pg 12.1
Anf-03 vi.ii.viii Pg 17
Cf. Matt. xxiii. 9; and Eph. iii. 14, 15, in the Greek.
no one so rich in paternal love. He, then, will receive you, His own son,8504 8504 Publicly enrolled as such in baptism; for Tertullian here is speaking solely of the “second repentance.”
back, even if you have squandered what you had received from Him, even if you return naked—just because you have returned; and will joy more over your return than over the sobriety of the other;8505