Quoting from the cited book: "... Tertullian takes ' spado ' to mean virgin ...".

The statement " Credo quia absurdum " (" I believe because it is absurd "), often attributed to Tertullian, is sometimes cited as an example of such a view in the Church Fathers, but this appears to be a misquotation from Tertullian's De Carne Christi ( On the Flesh of Christ

Third, he cited a few ancient authorities, Tertullian, Origen, Gratian's Decretum, and Beatus Rhenanus ( by which he meant collections of ancient texts edited by Rhenanus, a contemporary of Rothmann ), who at least to some degree supported directly or indirectly adult baptism and immersion.

The Early Church Fathers including Tertullian, Jerome, and Augustine state the Greek word is ambiguous and the women in 1 Corinthians 9: 5 were women ministering to the Apostles as women ministered to Christ ( cf Matthew 27: 55, Luke 8: 1-3 ), and were not wives, and assert they left their " offices of marriage " to follow Christ and to preach.

The Church Fathers, witnessed by the Muratorian Canon, Irenaeus ( c. 170 ), Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Tertullian, held that the Gospel of Luke was written by Luke.

For instance, Steven Cox and Kendell Easley list four separate approaches to a solution, ranging from a grammatical approach to the translation of the Greek word prote used in Luke to be read as " registration before Quirinius was governor of Syria " to archeological arguments and references to Tertullian that indicate that a " two step census " was performed, involving an early registration, given that Luke 2: 2 refers to the " first enrolment ".

Tertullian, along with Epiphanius of Salamis, also charged that Marcion set aside the gospels of Matthew, Mark and John, and used Luke alone.

Most scholars believe that Luke made an error in referring to the census but other scholars have attempted to reconcile its account with Matthew, ranging from a grammatical approach to the translation of the Greek word prote used in Luke to be read as " registration before Quirinius was governor of Syria " to archeological arguments and references to Tertullian that indicate that a " two step census " was performed, involving an early registration, given that Luke 2: 2 refers to the " first enrolment ".

( This is a separate question to Marcion's " canon ", which included only edited versions of Luke and the Pauline epistles ; according to Tertullian, Marcion " omitted " the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Pastoral Epistles.

The late 2nd-century writer Tertullian noted that Marcion, " expunged the Gospel of Luke all the things that oppose his view ... but retained those things that accord with his opinion ".

Respecting the ceremonies of this festival nothing is known, except that the people used to build huts of branches and foliage ( umbrae, according to Festus, under " Umbrae "), in which they probably feasted, drank, and amused themselves ( Horace Carmina iii. 28. 1, & c .; Tertullian De Spectaculis (" On Celebrations ") 6 ).

Descriptions of the statue have not survived ; its presence was last mentioned by the Church Father Tertullian ( Apologeticus 16. 6 ), who, in the late 2nd century AD, described it derisively as being nothing but " a rough stake, a shapeless piece of wood " ( Latin original: "

The question is indeed curious whether Marcion knew these three letters and rejected them as Tertullian says, since in 1 Timothy 6: 20 " false opposing arguments " are referred to, with the word for " opposing arguments " being " antithesis ", the name of Marcion's work, and so whether it is a subtle hint of Marcion's heresy.

Tertullian, " On Monogamy " ch. vi quotes a brief phrase —" follow the better things "— from 3 John 1. 11 " Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good ", a phrase that might also have been adapted from the Septuagint Psalm xxxvi.

Among Church writers Tertullian († 230 ) is the first to mention prayers for the dead, and not as a concession to natural sentiment, but as a duty: The widow who does not pray for her dead husband has as good as divorced him.

And there is good in Christianity, Tertullian claims, despite the fact that people remain ignorant to it.

Here Tertullian mentions: Nero, and to a certain extent: Domitian, as examples of emperors who raged against the Christians through the use of unjust laws, simply for condemning “ some magnificent good ”.

This thesis was put forward and defended by his readings of the early Christian philosopher Tertullian, who believed that famine and war were good for society as a whole as a means of solving the problem of overpopulation and resource-sharing.

In the 3rd century AD, Tertullian remarks the inevitable presence of Lares in pagan households as good reason to forbid marriage between pagan men and Christian women: the latter would be " tormented by the vapor of incense each time the demons are honored, each solemn festivity in honor of the emperors, each beginning of the year, each beginning of the month.

Although Tertullian utilized a knowledge of Roman law in his writings, his legal knowledge does not demonstrably exceed that of what could be expected from a sufficient Roman education.

# In soteriology, Tertullian does not dogmatize ; he prefers to keep silence at the mystery of the cross ( De Patientia, iii ).

Tertullian does not say how the Gospel came to Britain before AD 222.

Similar communal meals are attested also in the " Apostolic Tradition " often attributed to Hippolytus of Rome ( who does not use the term " agape ") and by Tertullian, who does.

In his De praescriptione contra haereticos, Tertullian mentioned continence as one of the customs in Mithraism that he claimed were imitated from Christianity, but does not associate it specifically with the clergy.

The Church Father Tertullian wrote, " And wherefore does this conclusion of the gospel affirm that these things were written unless it is that you might believe, it says, that Jesus Christ is the son of God?

5 ), and also in Tertullian, where it is too close to be anything but a conscious following of the Greek.

Tertullian wrote in his book On Patience 5: 15 " Having been made pregnant by the seed of the devil ... she brought forth a son.

Tertullian, Irenaeus, Hippolytus of Rome, Epiphanius, and Jerome ascribed the movement to a heretic named Ebion or Hebion ( Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics 33, On the Flesh of Christ 14. 18 .; Irenaeus Against Heretics 5. 1. 3 .; Hippolytus of Rome Refutation of All Heresies 7. 23.

It is attested as early as Tertullian, De baptismo 17: 5 ( c 190 ), who inveighed against its use in the advocacy of a woman's right to preach and to baptize.

According to the New Advent Church, what Tertullian actually says in DCC 5 is "... the Son of God died ; it is by all means to be believed, because it is absurd.

It is evident from these particulars that Abrasax was the name of the first of the 365 Archons, and accordingly stood below Sophia and Dynamis and their progenitors ; but his position is not expressly stated, so that the writer of the supplement to Tertullian had some excuse for confusing him with " the Supreme God.

Writing a little later, Tertullian makes the same main point but adds expressly that recently founded churches ( such as his own in Carthage ) could be considered apostolic if they had " derived the tradition of faith and the seeds of doctrine " from an apostolic church.

Tertullian ( c. a. d. 160 – 225 ) wrote that when it was discovered that a church elder had composed a pseudonymous work, The Acts of Paul ( which included a purported Pauline letter, 3 Corinthians ), the offending elder “ was removed from his office ” ( On Baptism 17 ).

Tertullian used it somewhat differently – all victims of the arena were sacrificial in his eyes – and expressed the paradox of the arenarii as a class, from a Christian viewpoint:

Other sources, such as the Life of Polycarp or excerpts from Tertullian and Eusebius of Caesarea are considered largely unhistorical or based on previous material.

" Similarly, Irenaeus wrote that the Christian " will not be commanded to leave idle one day of rest, who is constantly keeping sabbath ", and Tertullian argued " that we still more ought to observe a sabbath from all servile work always, and not only every seventh-day, but through all time ".

The chief critic of Sabellianism was Tertullian, who labeled the movement " Patripassianism ", from the Latin words pater for " father ", and passus from the verb " to suffer " because it implied that the Father suffered on the Cross.

The earliest possible attestations for 3 John come from Tertullian and Origen of Alexandria.

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, anglicised as Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 225 AD ), was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.

( For example, Tertullian taught that Christians should never flee from persecution, and that widows who remarried were committing adultery ; both teachings contradicted the epistles and actions of the Apostle Paul.

In the statement of the Trinity, Tertullian was a forerunner of the Nicene doctrine, approaching the subject from the standpoint of the Logos doctrine, though he did not state the immanent Trinity.

Kelly has stated: " Tertullian followed the Apologists in dating His “ perfect generation ” from His extrapolation for the work of creation ; prior to that moment God could not strictly be said to have had a Son, while after it the term “ Father ”, which for earlier theologians generally connoted God as author of reality, began to acquire the specialized meaning of Father and Son .".

In discussing whether sins committed subsequent to baptism may be forgiven, Tertullian calls baptism and penance " two planks " on which the sinner may be saved from shipwreck — language which he gave to the Church ( De penitentia, xii ).

* J. Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln ( 1845, third edition ) The Ecclesiastical History of the Second and Third Centuries, illustrated from the writings of Tertullian.

According to Tertullian ( in The Prescription of Heretics ) John was banished ( presumably to Patmos ) after being plunged into boiling oil in Rome and suffering nothing from it.

The Donatists also drew their beliefs from the writings of Tertullian and Cyprian.

It is the term given to the predominant form of the New Testament text witnessed in the Old Latin translation from the Greek ; and also in quotations from certain 2nd and 3rd-century Christian writers, including Cyprian, Tertullian and Irenaeus.

* English translation of the Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists from the Tertullian Project.

The early apologists, including Justin Martyr, Tertullian and Irenaeus, frequently discussed the parallels and contrasts between Christianity, Paganism and other syncretic religions, and answered charges of borrowing from paganism in their apologetical writings.