Tertullian, in his De Pudentia ( On Modesty ) 7: 1-4 mentions the depiction of a shepherd on Christian cups, calling to mind the parable of the Good Shepherd and thus used as a symbol for Jesus.

Tertullian ( c. 155 – 230 ) too, while advising postponement of baptism until after marriage, mentions that it was customary to baptise infants, with sponsors speaking on their behalf.

46 – 120 AD ) mentions the practice, as do Tertullian, Orosius and Diodorus Siculus.

46 – 120 CE ) mentions the practice, as do Tertullian, Orosius, Diodorus Siculus and Philo.

Eusebius ( 325 ), although he mentions an Acta Pilati that had been referred to by Justin and Tertullian and other pseudo-Acts of this kind, shows no acquaintance with this work.

Early Christian texts nonetheless condemned abortion without distinction: Luker mentions the Didache, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, and Saint Basil.

For example, Tertullian ( 145 – 220 ) mentions the practice in his De Corona, but gives no details as to who practiced it or how it was practiced.

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 ”.

Tertullian mentions a teaching of this sect that flesh was constructed for seduced souls by a certain ' fiery prince of evil '.

Tertullian, in De Spectaculis 30, mentions that in addition to the theory that the disciples stole the body the theory that the gardener did the deed such that " his lettuces might come to no harm from the crowds of visitants the body.

The earliest confirmed written evidence for Christianity in Britain is a statement by Tertullian, c. 200 AD, in which he described " all the limits of the Spains, and the diverse nations of the Gauls, and the haunts of the Britons, inaccessible to the Romans, but subjugated to Christ ".

Church Fathers Tertullian and Jerome held to traducianism and creationism, respectively, and pre-existence was condemned as heresy in the Second Council of Constantinople in AD 553.

In about 200 AD, Tertullian wrote ( Against Marcion IV.

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.

Jerome says that Tertullian lived to a great age, but there is no reliable source attesting to his survival beyond the estimated year 225 AD.

Tertullian ( AD 155 – 222 ) wrote in Adversus Judaeos that Britain had already received and accepted the Gospel in his lifetime, writing of:

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

According to the Liber Pontificalis, it was first used in the first half of the fourth century, although Tertullian wrote an essay no later than 220 AD titled De Pallio ( On the Pallium ).

Around AD 213 in Adversus Praxeas ( chapter 3 ) Tertullian provided a formal representation of the concept of the Trinity, i. e. that God exists as one " substance " but three " Persons ": The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

His theory of spurious origin involved Tertullian and Cyprian, and the interpretation by Augustine which led to the marginal note, and that marginal note was in the Bible text used by the author of the Confession of Faith at the Council of Carthage of 484 AD.

"; the proper Latin quotation Credo quia absurdum est, is from the Christian apologist Tertullian ( c. 160 – c. 220 AD ), who rejected rationalism and accepted a Gospel which addressed itself to the " non-rational levels of perception.

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: "

In addition, the Greek geographer Strabo, writing in the first century AD, refers to some Persian women veiling their faces ; and the early third-century Christian writer Tertullian clearly refers in his treatise The Veiling of Virgins to some pagan women of " Arabia " wearing a veil that covers not only their head but also the entire face.

Tertullian states that these Acts were written in honour of St Paul, by a presbyter of Asia, whose fraud was identified, and he was degraded from his office, at a date about AD 160.

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.

( 1 Sam. 10: 10, 11 ; 1 Sam. 19: 19-24 ) In 225 AD Tertullian speaks of " those who would deserve the excellent gifts of the spirit-and who ... by means of the Holy Spirit would obtain the gift of language, wisdom, and knowledge.

* Tertullian, Against Praxeas c. 213 AD

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

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 ).

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 actively advocated traducianism ( that is, the parental generation of souls ), while some of the later Fathers — most notably Saint Augustine, at the outbreak of Pelagianism — began to question the creation by God of individual souls and to incline to the opposite opinion, which seemed to facilitate the explanation of the transmission of original sin.

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 .".

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 ).

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

* The Tertullian Project, a site which provides all of the works of this Father of Church in Latin, translations in many languages, manuscripts etc.

Tertullian says, “ That which is infinite is known only to itself.

Tertullian, a 2nd century Church Father, described Jesus himself and Paul of Tarsus as spadones, which is translated as " eunuchs " in some contexts.

Electrum, a rare amalgam of gold and silver, was used by Tertullian as an example of a tertium quid, by which he meant a mixture with composite properties.

The epithets that can be identified are: Cozeuios, i. e. Conseuius the Sower, which opens the carmen and is attested as an old form of Consivius in Tertullian ; Patultius: the Opener ; Iancus or Ianeus: the Gatekeeper ; Duonus Cerus: the Good Creator ; rex king ( potissimum melios eum recum: the most powerful and best o ' em kings ); diuum patrem ( partem ): father of the gods ( or part of the gods ); diuum deus: god of the gods ; ianitos: the Janitor, Gatekeeper.

According to Tertullian and other writers of the mainstream Church ( which scholars refer to as Proto-orthodox Christianity ), the movement known as Marcionism began with the teachings and excommunication of Marcion around 144.

: ὁ ἡτοίμασεν ὁ κύριος ( which the LORD prepared ) Clement Tertullian

While Valentinus was alive he made many disciples, and his system was the most widely diffused of all the forms of Gnosticism, although, as Tertullian remarked, it developed into several different versions, not all of which acknowledged their dependence on him (" they affect to disavow their name ").

Many of the writings of these Gnostics, and a large number of excerpts from the writings of Valentinus, existed only in quotes displayed by their orthodox detractors, until 1945, when the cache of writings at Nag Hammadi revealed a Coptic version of the Gospel of Truth, which is the title of a text that, according to Irenaeus, was the same as the Gospel of Valentinus mentioned by Tertullian in his Against All Heresies.

As mentioned above, Tertullian claimed that Valentinus was a candidate for bishop, after which he turned to heresy in a fit of pique.

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.

Baraliris was an imagined Illyrian ruler, who ( according to Tertullian ) after seeing a sign in a dream, embarked on a series of military victories which allowed him to extend Illyrian rule over the Molossians and other tribes, as far as the frontiers of Macedon.

In the West there is ample evidence of the custom of praying for the dead in the inscriptions of the catacombs, with their constant prayers for the peace and refreshment of the souls of the departed and in the early liturgies, which commonly contain commemorations of the dead ; and Tertullian, Cyprian and other early Western Fathers witness to the regular practice of praying for the dead.