This may have been the Roman tradition — which Tertullian usually follows — and in Rome the epistle may have had its first readers.

An earlier example has been suggested in Tertullian < u > De Corona Militis xi </ u >, " Apud hunc Christum tam miles est paganus fidelis quam paganus est miles infidelis ," but here the word paganus may be interpreted in the sense " civilian " rather than " heathen ".

For Tertullian the soul is, however, a distinct entity and a certain corporeity and as such it may be tormented in Hell ( De anima, lviii ).

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 ).

# With reference to the ' rule of faith ', it may be said that Tertullian is constantly using this expression, and by it means now the authoritative tradition handed down in the Church, now the Scriptures themselves, and, perhaps, a definite doctrinal formula.

Celsus in De Medicina and the church leader Tertullian state that he vivisected at least 600 live prisoners ( although Tertullian lived several centuries after Herophilos and may have had reasons to discredit what he saw as heresy ).

We may say with Tertullian, an ancient Christian writer: “ the one who will be a man is one already ” ( Apologeticum IX, 8 ), there is no reason not to consider him a person from conception.

" Tertullian, an early Christian polemicist, may have merely meant to mock those who doubted the resurrection by putting the petty gardener theory in their mouths.

The Against Marcion is lost, as is the Refutation of all Heresies to which Justin himself refers in Apology, i. 26 ; Hegesippus, besides perhaps Irenaeus and Tertullian, seems to have used it.

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.

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 .".

There have been many works attributed to Tertullian in the past which have since been determined to be almost definitely written by others.

Perpetua and Felicitas ), much of it the personal diary of St. Perpetua, was once assumed to have been edited by Tertullian.

According to Tertullian, Clement was consecrated by Saint Peter, and he is known to have been a leading member of the church in Rome in the late 1st century.

Some scholars have postulated that Abellio is the same name as Apollo, who in Crete and elsewhere was called Abelios ( Greek ), and by the Italians and some Dorians Apello, and that the deity is the same as the Gallic Apollo mentioned by Caesar, and also the same as the Belis or Belenus mentioned by Tertullian and Herodian.

Although some have suggested that the editor of the text is Tertullian, the editor ’ s identity remains uncertain.

Christian exegesis of the " evil one " in have also led some commentators, like Tertullian, to agree that Cain was the son of the Devil in Christianity or some fallen angel.

His near-contemporaries Rhodon and Tertullian described him as a wealthy ship owner, and he is said to have made a donation of 200, 000 sesterces to the church.

Similarly, Tertullian argued that second marriage, by one who was made freed from the first by death, " will have to be termed no other than a species of fornication ," partly based on the reasoning that such involves desiring to marry a women out of sexual ardor.

They have been interpreted as children of Joseph and Mary, a view put forward by Tertullian and perhaps by Hegesippus, but that, when proposed by Helvidius, met with opposition from Jerome, who was apparently voicing the general Christian opinion at the time.

4 June 2012 < http :// www. oxfordreference. com / views / ENTRY. html? subview = Main & entry = t95. e5690 ></ ref > Its readership is likely to have been composed of Christians, whose faith was reinforced through Tertullian's defense against rationalizations and rumours and who “ would have been hugely enheartened by Tertullian ’ s matchless confidence in the superiority of the Christian religion ”.

Tertullian has addressed the charges and demonstrated that the charges faced by Christians are based on lies and rumors and that no such things have been committed.

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 ".

Though these stories are considered historically questionable by modern scholars, Christianity must have reached Armenia at an early date as persecutions against Christians in 110, 230, and 287 were recorded by outside writers Eusebius and Tertullian.

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: "

While the keeping of the Blessed Sacrament outside of Mass seems to have been part of the Eucharistic Christian practice from the beginnings ( both Justin Martyr and Tertullian refer to it ), the practice of adoration began somewhat later.

* Some Latin Christian authors, such as Tertullian and Augustine, followed Varro's threefold usage, though Augustine also used the term more simply to mean ' reasoning or discussion concerning the deity '

The rule of faith, however, seems to be also applied by Tertullian to some distinct formula of doctrine, and he gives a succinct statement of the Christian faith under this term ( De praescriptione, xiii ).

He also defines the term “ skepticism ” as he uses it and identifies two types of skeptic, the Apollonian, who is “ committed to clarity and rationality ” and the Dionysian, who is “ committed to passion and instinct .” William James, Bertrand Russell, and Friedrich Nietzsche exemplify the Apollonian skeptic, Carroll says, and Charles Sanders Peirce, Tertullian, Søren Kierkegaard, and Blaise Pascal are Dionysian skeptics.

When Tertullian, a Montanist, furiously applied the term to some bishop with whom he was at odds ( either Pope Callixtus I or Agrippinus of Carthage ), c. 220, over a relaxation of the Church's penitential discipline allowing repentant adulterers and fornicators back into the Church, it was in bitter irony:

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.

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.

Bernard theorizes that the majority of all believers were Oneness adherents until the time of Tertullian, who died circa 225, and was the first notable Church figure to use the term Trinity to describe God.

The term was first coined by the 3rd century North African Christian writer, Tertullian, in his work De Pallio.

Tertullian used the term pejoratively to refer to those in his native Carthage who aped Roman culture.

It is unknown whether this term was widely used in the early Church, or whether it was a personal theological observation of Tertullian.

Consubstantial ( Latin: consubstantialis ) is an adjective used in Latin Christian christology, coined by Tertullian in Against Hermogenes 44, used to translate the Greek term homoousios.

This phrase in Romans 12 becomes the root for later usage of the term by such Early Christian writers as Tertullian.

Patripassianism was referred to as a belief ascribed to those following Sabellianism, after its founder Sabellius, especially by the chief opponent Tertullian.

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.

Tertullian gave Sabellius ' doctrine the name Patripassianism, meaning ‘ the father suffered ’, since Sabellius made no true distinction of persons between the Father and the Son.