Summary

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

If in his body, then it is his body, not his soul, which is lost. What, however, is lost, the Son of man saves. The body, [13] therefore, has the salvation. If, (on the other hand,) it is in his soul that man is lost, salvation is designed for the lost soul; and the body which is not lost is safe. If, (to take the only other supposition,) man is wholly lost, in both his natures, then it necessarily follows that salvation is appointed for the entire man; and then the opinion of the heretics is shivered to pieces, [14] who say that there is no salvation of the flesh.
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Portrait of Tertullian Tertullian Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Anti-Marcion… (1885)

Now, although Zacchæus was probably a Gentile, [2] he yet from his intercourse with Jews had obtained a smattering [3] of their Scriptures, and, more than this, had, without knowing it, fulfilled the precepts of Isaiah: “Deal thy bread,” said the prophet, “to the hungry, and bring the poor that are cast out into thine house.” [4] This he did in the best possible way, by receiving the Lord, and entertaining Him in his house. “When thou seest the naked cover him.”
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