Summary

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

If men have consecrated for themselves this custom from superstition, why do you, estranged as you are from all their vanity, participate in solemnities consecrated to idols; as if for you also there were some prescript about a day, short of the observance of a particular day, to prevent your paying or receiving what you owe a man, or what is owed you by a man?
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Portrait of Tertullian Tertullian Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. III, Apologetic… (1885)

But, for these purposes, “There is nought of communion between light and darkness,” [3] between life and death or else we rescind what is written, “The world shall rejoice, but ye shall grieve.” [4] If we rejoice with the world, there is reason to fear that with the world we shall grieve too. But when the world rejoices, let us grieve; and when the world afterward grieves, we shall rejoice.
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