Anf-03 iv.iv.xii Pg 13
Luke xiv. 26; Mark x. 29, 30; Matt. xix. 27–30. Compare these texts with Tertullian’s words, and see the testimony he thus gives to the deity of Christ.
Do you hesitate about arts, and trades, and about professions likewise, for the sake of children and parents? Even there was it demonstrated to us, that both “dear pledges,”249 249 i.e., any dear relations.
and handicrafts, and trades, are to be quite left behind for the Lord’s sake; while James and John, called by the Lord, do leave quite behind both father and ship;250 250
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 19
VERSE (27) - Mt 4:20-22; 9:9 De 33:9 Mr 1:17-20; 2:14; 10:28 Lu 5:11,27,28