Anf-03 vi.iv.viii Pg 6
i.e. no children even. The reference is apparently to Matt. x. 37 and Luke xiv. 26, with which may be compared Deut. xiii. 6–; 10 and xxxiii. 9. If Oehler’s reading, which I have followed, be correct, the precept, which is not verbally given till ages after Abraham, is made to have a retrospective force on him.
He Himself, when tempted by the devil, demonstrated who it is that presides over and is the originator of temptation.8820 8820
Anf-03 vi.iv.viii Pg 6
i.e. no children even. The reference is apparently to Matt. x. 37 and Luke xiv. 26, with which may be compared Deut. xiii. 6–; 10 and xxxiii. 9. If Oehler’s reading, which I have followed, be correct, the precept, which is not verbally given till ages after Abraham, is made to have a retrospective force on him.
He Himself, when tempted by the devil, demonstrated who it is that presides over and is the originator of temptation.8820 8820
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.xxiii Pg 27.1
Anf-03 v.iv.ii.xxix Pg 12
Lev. xx. 10, 13, 15.
Now, if any limitation is set to marrying—such as the spiritual rule,2683 2683 Ratio.
which prescribes but one marriage under the Christian obedience,2684 2684 In fide. Tertullian uses (De Pud. 18) “ante fidem” as synonymous with ante baptismum; similarly “post fidem.”
maintained by the authority of the Paraclete,2685 2685 [Bad as this is, does it argue the lapse of our author as at this time complete?]
—it will be His prerogative to fix the limit Who had once been diffuse in His permission; His to gather, Who once scattered; His to cut down the tree, Who planted it; His to reap the harvest, Who sowed the seed; His to declare, “It remaineth that they who have wives be as though they had none,”2686 2686
Anf-03 vi.iv.viii Pg 6
i.e. no children even. The reference is apparently to Matt. x. 37 and Luke xiv. 26, with which may be compared Deut. xiii. 6–; 10 and xxxiii. 9. If Oehler’s reading, which I have followed, be correct, the precept, which is not verbally given till ages after Abraham, is made to have a retrospective force on him.
He Himself, when tempted by the devil, demonstrated who it is that presides over and is the originator of temptation.8820 8820
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xviii Pg 21
Deut. xxi. 21; quoted also in 1 Cor. v. 13.
Again, “Go ye out from the midst of them; touch not the unclean thing; separate yourselves, ye that bear the vessels of the Lord.”6022 6022
Anf-01 v.vi.iii Pg 8
Deut. xiii. 6; 18.
You ought therefore to “hate those that hate God, and to waste away [with grief] on account of His enemies.”899 899
Anf-03 v.x.ii Pg 14
Deut. xiii. 6.
He adds likewise concerning cities, that if it appeared that one of these had, through the advice of unrighteous men, passed over to other gods, all its inhabitants should be slain, and everything belonging to it become accursed, and all the spoil of it be gathered together into all its places of egress, and be, even with all the people, burned with fire in all its streets in the sight of the Lord God; and, says He, “it shall not be for dwelling in for ever: it shall not be built again any more, and there shall cleave to thy hands nought of its accursed plunder, that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of His anger.”8240 8240
Anf-03 vi.iv.viii Pg 6
i.e. no children even. The reference is apparently to Matt. x. 37 and Luke xiv. 26, with which may be compared Deut. xiii. 6–; 10 and xxxiii. 9. If Oehler’s reading, which I have followed, be correct, the precept, which is not verbally given till ages after Abraham, is made to have a retrospective force on him.
He Himself, when tempted by the devil, demonstrated who it is that presides over and is the originator of temptation.8820 8820
Anf-01 v.vi.iii Pg 8
Deut. xiii. 6; 18.
You ought therefore to “hate those that hate God, and to waste away [with grief] on account of His enemies.”899 899
Anf-03 v.x.ii Pg 12
Deut. xiii. 1.
But also in another section,8238 8238 Of course our division of the Scripture by chapter and verse did not exist in the days of Tertullian.—Tr.
“If, however, thy brother, the son of thy father or of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend who is as thine own soul, solicit thee, saying secretly, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou knowest not, nor did thy fathers, of the gods of the nations which are round about thee, very nigh unto thee or far off from thee, do not consent to go with him, and do not hearken to him. Thine eye shall not spare him, neither shalt thou pity, neither shalt thou preserve him; thou shalt certainly inform upon him. Thine hand shall be first upon him to kill him, and afterwards the hand of thy people; and ye shall stone him, and he shall die, seeing he has sought to turn thee away from the Lord thy God.”8239 8239
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 17
VERSE (2) - :5; 13:6-18; 29:18
