Ante-Nicene Christian Library; Translations Of The Writings Of The Fathers Down To A.D. 325, Volume 11: The Writings Of Tertullian, Volume 1

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DE FUGA IN PERSECUTIONE. 375should do for Him; and not only for the Lord Himself, nay,

timo has augiit of the hind been provided by bringing Christiana under some purchase-money for the person and thesech although enormous gains could be reaped hom numbers

liber of our secti And so he who stipulatos to havo itat a price, opposes the divine appotniment. Since, ther fore, Caesar has imposed nothing on us after this fashion ofa tributary sect-in faci, such an imposition never can bomade, Willi Antichrist noW close at hand, and gaping ior theblood, not for the money of Christians-hoW can it be potntedout to mo that there is tho command , Render to Caesar thothings which aro Caesar's A soldier, bo he an informeror an enemn extorta money from me by threata, exacting

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Christ luminous against iis darkness. You cannot run about among them one aster another. Be content With a chureli ot

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great erit from the diminutive scorpion. The potSons are as many as are tho Ends of it, the disastera as many as are also the species ofit, the pains as many as are alio tho colours of it. Nicander

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380 TERTULLIANUS and adjuring that pari in the name of Jesuri, and besmea

saia by What it has of iis own also at oster times, When itis subjected to scorpions of iis o n. These, iso, have atroublesomo iuuenem, and are os different soris, and amarmed in one manner, and are stirred up at a definite time, and that not another than one of burning heat. This amougChristians is is Mason o persecution. When, therelare, fiathis greatly agitat , and the church burning, as represented by the bus then the Gnostica brea Out, then the Vale tinians creep fori then ali the opponents of martyrdomsbubble np, Ming themselves also to strihe, penetrate, hili

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scorpion missi a curae, so far as you can, With Dur sandat,

sense of murnem. Already the underatanding also meis for

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382 TERTULLIANUS

For, in like manner, they also Who oppose martyrdOmS, r presenting salvation to be destruction, transmute sWeet into

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384 TERTULLIANUSsoul. Astor the Lord your God yo shali go, and te. Him,

Loes may turn from the fiercenem of Ηis anger.'' Ηρ has, hom Ηis abhorrenco os idols, framed a series of curam sto: Cursod bo tho man who maheth a graven or a molienimage, an abomination, the Work of the hanti of tho crati man, and pulteth it in a secret placo. ρ But in Levitieus m says: μGo not ye aster idols, nor mari to D selves