Summary

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

Meanwhile with the number thirty all fecundity ceases. The generating force and power and desire of the Æons is spent. [13] As if there were not still left some strong rennet for curdling numbers. [14] As if no other names were to be got out of the page’s hall! [15] For why are there not sets of fifty and of a hundred procreated? Why, too, are there no comrades and boon companions [16] named for them?
Footnotes ↑ We everywhere give Tertullian’s own names, whether of Greek form or Latin.
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