 We are a people of yesterday, and yet we have filled every place belonging to you, cities, islands, castles, towns, assemblies, your very camp, your tribes, companies, palace, senate, forum' ! We leave you your temples only. We can count your armies :...  The Christian Review - Page 4561856Full view - About this book
 | Tertullian - Apologetics - 1842 - 610 pages
...one spot, and of their own boundaries, are, I suppose, more numerous than one of the whole world ! We are a people of yesterday, and yet we have filled...our numbers in a single province will be greater*. For what war should we not be sufficient and ready, even ' Above, c. 1. 4. Vienne.) • Eusebius speaks... | |
 | Tertullian - Theology - 1842 - 608 pages
...one spot, and of their own boundaries, are, I suppose, more numerous than one of the whole world ! We are a people of yesterday, and yet we have filled...our numbers in a single province will be greater*. For what war should we not be sufficient and ready, even ' Above, c. 1. 4. Vienne.) * Eusebius speaks... | |
 | Tertullian - Theology - 1842 - 738 pages
...one spot, and of their own boundaries, are, I suppose, more numerous than one of the whole world ! We are a people of yesterday, and yet we have filled...armies : our numbers in a single province will be greater5". For what war should we not be sufficient and ready, even ' Above, c. I. 4. Vienne.) 1 l-.n-cl.iii... | |
 | Tertullian - Theology - 1842 - 604 pages
...one spot, and of their own boundaries, are, I suppose, more numerous than one of the whole world ! We are a people of yesterday, and yet we have filled...very camp, your tribes, companies, palace, senate, forum1 ! We leave you your temples only. We can count your armies : our numbers in a single province... | |
 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - Christian literature, Early - 1842 - 600 pages
...islands, castles, towns, assemblies, your very camp, your tribes, companies, palace, senate, forum1 ! We leave you your temples only. We can count your...our numbers in a single province will be greater*. For what war should we not be sufficient and ready, even ' Above, i: 1. 4. Vienne.) • Eusebius speaks... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1860 - 1174 pages
...were enemies, we should not lack numbers and forces to defend ourselves from persecution. We are but of yesterday, and yet we have filled every place belonging...tribes, companies, palace, senate, forum. We leave you nothing but your temples. We can count your armies: our numbers, in a single province, would exceed... | |
 | Criticism - 1860 - 1172 pages
...were enemies, we should not lack numbers and forces to defend ourselves from persecution. "We are but of yesterday, and yet we have filled every place belonging...islands, castles, towns, assemblies, your very camp, yonr tribes, companies, palace, senate, forum. We leave you nothing but your temples. We can count... | |
 | 1880 - 494 pages
...Apology could even thus threaten the Roman Government : " We are," he said, " a people of yesterday, yet we have filled every place belonging to you, cities,...assemblies, your very camp, your tribes, companies, palaces, senate, forum. We leave you your temples only. We can count your armies, and our numbers in... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1859 - 564 pages
...alike over all parts of the empire. " We are a people of yesterday," says Tertullian in his Apology, "and yet we have filled every place belonging to you...our numbers in a single province will be greater." All these facts expose the injustice of the odious charge of Celsus, repeated by a modern sceptic,... | |
 | Michel Granier - 1859 - 448 pages
...at last broke down the strong holds of old Paganism. It was then the great Tertulliau exclaimed, " We are a people of yesterday, and yet we have filled every place : we leave you your temples only." I am tempted to apply this fragment of his immortal "Apology" to... | |
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