Tertullian

“ It was He that chose their persons, and appointed their work, and gave them their several orders and directions: in all which, it is evident that He acted under Christ as His supreme substitute. Accordingly, by Tertullian he is styled ‘the Vicarious Virtue, or Power,’ as He was the Supreme Vicar and substitute of Christ in mediating for God with men.”
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(She shall be called woman, p. 31.) ”

“ He knew of no other “Vicar of Christ” than the promised Paraclete, who should bring all Christ’s words to remembrance, and be “another Comforter.” Let me quote from Dr. Scott [1] a very striking passage in illustration: “The Holy Ghost, after Christ’s departure from the world, acted immediately under Christ as the supreme vicegerent of his kingdom ”

“ Hippolytus speaks of the crime which had shocked Tertullian as assuming terrible proportions at Rome in the time of Callistus [4] and under his patronage, circa A.D. 220. But in this case it was not so much the novelty of the evil which attracted the rebuke of the Christian moralist, but the fact that it was licensed by a bishop.
Footnotes ↑ The Christian Life, vol. iii. p. 64.↑ Tertullian speaks of the heathen as “decimated by abortions.” See ad Uxor., p. 41, infra.↑ Lippincotts, Philadelphia, 1868.↑ Bunsen, vol. i. p. 134. ”