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Antidote for the Scorpion’s Sting (Scorpiace)
Tertullian, ANF 3
- The earth brings forth, as if by suppuration, great evil from the diminutive scorpion. …
- But not yet about the good to be got from martyrdom must we learn, without our having …
- Nor should I think it needful to discuss whether God pursues a worthy course in …
- If, therefore, it is evident that from the beginning this kind of worship has both been …
- You have therefore the will of my God. We have cured this prick. Let us give good heed to…
- But if, for the contest’s sake, God had appointed martyrdoms for us, that thereby we …
- If the scorpion, swinging his tail in the air, still reproach us with having a murderer …
- We keep therefore the one position, and, in respect of this question only, summon to an …
- It remains for us, lest ancient times may perhaps have had the sacrament (exclusively) …
- But as to those who think that not here, that is, not within this environment of earth, …
- In the same manner, therefore, we maintain that the other announcements too refer to the …
- Who, now, should know better the marrow of the Scriptures than the school of Christ …
- But how Paul, an apostle, from being a persecutor, who first of all shed the blood of the…
- No doubt the apostle admonishes the Romans to be subject to all power, because there is …
- Now, then, the epistles of the apostles also are well known. And do we, (you say), in all…