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? ”
