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

For in things worldly [5] we are active enough, and we wish the good of each of us to be consulted. If we draw up wills for such matters, why ought we not much more to take forethought for our posterity [6] in things divine and heavenly, and in a sense to bequeath a legacy to be received before the inheritance be divided,— (the legacy, I mean, of) admonition and demonstration touching those (bequests) which are allotted [7] out of (our) immortal goods, and from the heritage of the heavens?
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Portrait of Tertullian Tertullian Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Tertullian… (1885)

But to Christians, after their departure from the world, [10] no restoration of marriage is promised in the day of the resurrection, translated as they will be into the condition and sanctity of angels. [11] Therefore no solicitude arising from carnal jealousy will, in the day of the resurrection, even in the case of her whom they chose to represent as having been married to seven brothers successively, wound any one [12] of her so many husbands
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