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Tertullian
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Tertullian (/tərˈtʌliən/; Latin: Quintus Caecillius Quam Celerime Quam Asinus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; c. 155 – c. 220 AD)[1] was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.[2][3] He was the first Christian auth... (wikipedia)
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Born in Carthage, Roman Empire
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Religious Quotes
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a sort of homage to the departed, the one as well as the other is a service to dead men. Moreover, demons dwell in the images of the dead. ... this sort of exhibition has passed from honors of the dead to honors of the living; I mean, to quaestorships [financial overseers]and magistractes, to priestly offices of different kinds. Yet, since idolatry still cleaves to the dignity's name, whatever is done in its name partakes of its impurity.
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Religious Quotes
[Hermogenes] despises God's law in his painting, maintains repeated marriages [almost certainly a reference to remarrying after divorce or perhaps even widowhood, which Tertullian, who became a Montanist, opposed], alleges the law of God in defense of lust [likely same reference], and yet despises it in respect of his art.
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