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Portrait of Tertullian Tertullian Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Anti-Marcion… (1885)

As for our heretics, however, it is marvellous what storeys upon storeys [3] and what heights upon heights, they have hung up, raised and spread out as a dwelling for each several god of theirs. Even our Creator has had arranged for Him the saloons of Ennius in the fashion of private rooms, [4] with chamber piled upon chamber, and assigned to each god by just as many staircases as there were heresies.
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Portrait of Tertullian Tertullian Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Anti-Marcion… (1885)

The universe, in fact, has been turned into “rooms to let.” [5] Such storeys of the heavens you would imagine to be detached tenements in some happy isle of the blessed, [6] I know not where. There the god even of the Valentinians has his dwelling in the attics. They call him indeed, as to his essence, Αἰῶν τέλειος (Perfect Æon) , but in respect of his personality, Προαρχή (Before the Beginning) , ̔Η ̓Αρχή (The Beginning) , and sometimes Bythos (Depth) , [7] a name which is most unfit for one who dwells in the heights above!
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