iii. There was likewise one Fidius, a Sabine god, whose temple was upon the MonsQuirinalis. Ciceron. Hoc agile, boni Praesides, extorquete animam Deo supplicantem pro Impera-tore. But Christians who prayed dePectore, with all their hearts and souls, had no need of such an officer. L'apologétique de Tertullien: apologie du christianisme (2e édition): TERTULLIEN: Amazon.com.au: Books In the foregoing Apology, Just in Martyr gives several instanceswherein Plato had stolen from Moses ; and Clemens Tertullian's Apology for the Christians. Hear what his scholar St. Cyprian says to Demetrianus, proconsulof Africa, upon the same subject : O si audire eos velles, et videre quando a nobisadjurantur, et torquentur Spiritualibus flagris, et verborum tormentis deobsessis corporibus ejiciuntur, quando ejulantes et gementes voce humana,et potestate Divina flagella et verbera sentientes, venturum Judicium confitentur ;veni, et cognosce vera esse qua dicimus. Ibidem etiam exhortationes, castigationes, et censura Divina,Summumquefuturi Judicii Prejudicium est, si quis ita deliquerit ut a CommunicationeOrationis et conventus et omnis Sancti commercii relegetur. Is And these traitors just before theperpetration of this horrid impiety offered sacrifice for Caesar's life,and swore by Caesar's genius, with religion in their faces, andmurder in their hearts, and branded the Christians with thecharacter of public enemies. lib. 1 THAT THE CHRISTIANS ARE CONDEMNED MERELY UPON THE But you worship them,and with the blood of Christians too, I well know; and thereforethey would by no means lose such good clients and devotedservants as you are, not only for the sake of their honours andofferings, but for fear, should any of you turn Christians, youshould dispossess and serve them as we do. manner of your resurrection. lib. 1 De nostris annis Jupiter augeat annos. And praynow, where is the crime to be ambitious of getting into the goodgraces of Caesar only? lib. Whereas wecould in a night's time with links and firebrands in our hands have. TO CALL THE EMPEROR BY THE TITLE OF GOD. 105. in strength, yet considering our usage, what should we not attemptreadily? [The remaining pages, 145-270, containing Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, have been Eusebius tells us it was a most charming sight to behold themartyrs in prison, to see how their misery became them, how they adornedtheir fetters, and that they looked as captivating in chains as a bride in all herglories at the day of marriage. And it is reallyworth observing that in all these public evils the towns and templesboth are involved in the same misfortune; which would not be,methinks, had your gods anything to do in the matter, because theywould hardly have a hand in doing themselves a mischief. Valer. Tertullian's Apology for the Christians. Booktopia has L'Apologetique de Tertullien, Apologie Du Christianisme (2e Edition) by Tertullien. I HAVE now, as I think, stood the whole charge, and replied toevery article, for which men have been so deadly clamorous for theblood of Christians. 118 In like manner, the peopleshow as much folly as brutishness in rejoicing at the sufferings ofChristians; for these sufferings which give them only a malicious. But with all respectto this learned prelate, he seems not to reach the design and meaning ofTertullian in this place ; and in order hereunto, it is to be remembered thatthe heathen had abundance of deities, and every deity to be invoked in a severalform, for such blessings as lay within his particular province. Aristippus in hispurple, and under the greatest show of gravity, was an arrantdebauchee; and Hippias1 was killed while he was actually inambush against the city, a thing which no Christian ever attemptedfor the deliverance of his brethren, though under the most barbaroususage. Apology for the Christians. CHRISTIANS ABOVE THAT OF ALL OTHER PEOPLE. Apology for the Christians. so again St. JeromeNisi, inquit, fuerit Romanum Imperium ante desolatum,et Antichristus praecessarit, Christus non veniet. Or say that after He was buried, His disciplescame and stole away His body out of the sepulchre, or that He isyet among the dead ? ii. Now in sucha swarm of deities and different invocations, a god might easily be passed over,or the invocation ill worded, or ill pronounced (which was looked upon veryominous, and hence perhaps that phrase of Bona Verba). Denique sine Monitore, quia de Pectore oramus. Non emo capiti coronamViderint, qui per capillum odorantur. It is all at most but human wisdom, andthat (as Tertullian says) is as subject to error as human power is to contempt,and both consequently subject to dispute. Qua cineres Jovis texit. Filthy pliers about baths. Not. Besides, it was a custom, and taken noticeof by Plutarch, that while the priest was officiating, for another to go behindhim with this admonition, Hoc age quod agis, "Be sure to mind what you areabout;" and this perhaps might be the monitor. But now this power and dominion of ours over these wickedspirits has all its efficacy from the name of Christ, and from ourreminding them of those judgments which are dropping upon theirheads from the hand of God through Christ, whom He has madeJudge of the world ; and the dread they have of Christ in God, andGod in Christ, is the thing which subjects them to the servants ofGod and Christ. Who are you,pray, sir, that pretend to have my will in keeping? and Nile does not; if heaven stands still and withholds its rain, The same disputes we findabout the state of the soul, some contending for it to be of a divineimmortal nature, and others of a nature corruptible; every oneinferring and reforming as the maggot bit. we have this inscription,ENQADE And thus again, de Orat.Domin. vii.. Vid. their lives. This among the Romans was the triumphal robe,all over embroidered with palm branches in token of victory. And it is notorious of late years whatattempts have been made to reform religion by philosophy, instead of makingphilosophy bend to revelation. Signif. Suidas says this0Asta&rth likewise for the same reason did Orosius at St. Austin's request write his seven Give us now what names you please from the instruments ofcruelty you torture us by; call us Sarmenticians and Semaxians,because you fasten us to trunks of trees, and stick us about withfaggots to set us on fire;1 yet let me tell you, when we are thusbegirt and dressed about with fire, we are then in our mostillustrious apparel. But the true reason of this defamation, uponthe account of styling ourselves brethren, I take to be this, becausethe name of brother is found with these men to be only a gildedexpression of a counterfeit friendship. 1 39, how severely that resistance is condemned by St. Paul, andthat condemnation is declared the punishment of it, I am forced to cry out, Oh !what times are we fallen in, in which men dare against the express laws of thegospel defend that practice upon which God hath passed this condemnation' Ifwhosoever break the least of these commandments, and teach men so to do,shall be called the least in the kingdom of God,' what shall their portion bewho teach men to break one of the greatest of these commandments, such as arethe laws of peace and subjection? But this is not all, for I must give you to understand that thesevery laws of yours, which are but in the way to perfection, are nomore in good truth than a transcript of the old law of God, olderby much than any law of your making, but I have already laidbefore you the antiquity of Moses. Nec Capitolini summum penetrale Tonantis,Quaeque nitent Coelo proximo. I, p. 3. p. 486, lib. And it is observable thatthe old serpent took the same course in tempting the second Adam with a textfrom Scripture ; and I know not any author that ever copied closer after thedevil in this very thing than the author of the Rights of the Christian Church,who, with all the strength of delusion, has done his best to set up the kingdom ofdarkness, and to unchurch Christendom from Scripture. lib. 26, p. 83, tells us of a Christian woman who, going to the theatre,was there possessed by an evil spirit, who upon his ejectment being demandedhow he durst set upon a Christian, immediately replied, "I did but what wasjust and fitting, for I found her upon my own ground. Pro salute Imperatoris sacrifuare. Origen is of opinion that Plato byconversing with the Jews in Egypt came acquainted with the history of the fallof man, which after his enigmatical way he describes in his Symposiacs, where heintroduces Porus the god of plenty feasting with the rest of the gods ; aftersupper Penia comes to the door a-begging ; Porus being drunk with nectar, goesinto Jupiter's garden, and there falls fast asleep ; Penia observing it steals to, Tertullian's Apology for the Christians. cap. i. p. 669. i., that Tiberius forbade all such swearing either by his life orgenius. And where is now the similitude between a philosopherand a Christian ? That kind of treasury we have is not filled withany dishonourable sum, as the price of a purchased religion; everyone puts a little to the public stock, commonly once a month,2 orwhen he pleases, and only upon condition that he is both willingand able; for there is no compulsion upon any. What! These Aquilecia were the sacrifices offered toJupiter under great scarcity of water, propter aquam eliciendam ; and thencecalled Jupiter Elicius, according to that of Ovid. 1 If he be a man, it is theinterest of a man to give place to God; let him content himselfwith the name of emperor, for this is the most majestic name uponearth, and it is the gift of God. Juvenal, speaking in theperson of the people applauding the emperor's happiness upon the overthrow ofhis enemy, says, Pone domi Lauros. bosom or port was such an Eden of happiness for righteous spirits ; and as that 120 Tertullian's Apology for the Christians. to makebonfires, to bring out tables and feasts in the streets, and meta- morphose the whole city into a tavern ;2 to make the conduits runwine, and see the mob suck up dirt and liquor together, and run. fwnh_, tou~to pra&tte, prose/xein keleu&ousa toij i9eroij, kai\ mhde\n TheLacedaimonian method, of enuring their people to hardiness, is toput them into a course of scourging, and to double their disciplinein the presence of any of their friends, who read the scholars alecture of patience while they are under the lash; and everyscholar carried home a quantity of honour, according to thequantity of blood he left behind him. CONCERNING THE MALICE AND PERVERSENESS OF THE JUDGES, IN and what human power is able to reach the conscience, and bring down, Tertullian's Apology for the Christians. Phaleg.
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