Tertullian, Scorpiace. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1885), public domain.
Passages · 15
- Scorpiace Chapter 1 — VIII. Antidote for the Scorpion’s Sting. Chapter I. The earth brings forth, as if by suppuration, great evil from the diminutive scorpion. The poisons are as many as are the kinds of it, the disasters as many as are…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 2 — But not yet about the good to be got from martyrdom must we learn, without our having first heard about the duty of suffering it; nor must we learn the usefulness of it, before we have heard about the necessity for…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 3 — Nor should I think it needful to discuss whether God pursues a worthy course in forbidding His own name and honour to be given over to a lie, or does so in not consenting that such as He has plucked from the maze of…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 4 — If, therefore, it is evident that from the beginning this kind of worship has both been forbidden—witness the commands so numerous and weighty—and that it has never been engaged in without punishment following, as…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 5 — You have therefore the will of my God. We have cured this prick. Let us give good heed to another thrust touching the character of His will. It would be tedious to show that my God is good,—a truth with which the…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 6 — But if, for the contest’s sake, God had appointed martyrdoms for us, that thereby we might make trial with our opponent, in order that He may now keep bruising him by whom man chose to be bruised, here too generosity…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 7 — If the scorpion, swinging his tail in the air, still reproach us with having a murderer for our God, I shall shudder at the altogether foul breath of blasphemy which comes stinking from his heretical mouth; but I…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 8 — We keep therefore the one position, and, in respect of this question only, summon to an encounter, whether martyrdoms have been commanded by God, that you may believe that they have been commanded by reason, if you…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 9 — It remains for us, lest ancient times may perhaps have had the sacrament (exclusively) their own, to review the modern Christian system, as though, being also from God, it might be different from what preceded, and…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 10 — But as to those who think that not here, that is, not within this environment of earth, nor during this period of existence, nor before men possessing this nature shared by us all, has confession been appointed to be…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 11 — In the same manner, therefore, we maintain that the other announcements too refer to the condition of martyrdom. “He,” says Jesus, “who will value his own life also more than me, is not worthy of me,”—that is, he who…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 12 — Who, now, should know better the marrow of the Scriptures than the school of Christ itself?—the persons whom the Lord both chose for Himself as scholars, certainly to be fully instructed in all points, and appointed…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 13 — But how Paul, an apostle, from being a persecutor, who first of all shed the blood of the church, though afterwards he exchanged the sword for the pen, and turned the dagger into a plough, being first a ravening wolf…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 14 — No doubt the apostle admonishes the Romans to be subject to all power, because there is no power but of God, and because (the ruler) does not carry the sword without reason, and is the servant of God, nay also, says…vatican.va
- Scorpiace Chapter 15 — Now, then, the epistles of the apostles also are well known. And do we, (you say), in all respects guileless souls and doves merely, love to go astray? I should think from eagerness to live. But let it be so, that…vatican.va
Scripture cited · 114 verses
Genesis 25:34 · Genesis 27:25 · Exodus 3:2 · Exodus 3:17 · Exodus 20:2 · Exodus 20:22 · Exodus 20:23 · Leviticus 25:55 · Leviticus 26:1 · Numbers 25:1 · Deuteronomy 6:4 · Deuteronomy 6:12 · Deuteronomy 11:27 · Deuteronomy 12:2 · Deuteronomy 12:3 · Deuteronomy 12:30 · Deuteronomy 13:1 · Deuteronomy 13:6 · Deuteronomy 13:16 · Deuteronomy 27:15 · Judges 2:8 · Judges 2:9 · Judges 2:10 · Judges 2:11 · Judges 2:12 · Judges 2:13 · Judges 2:20 · Judges 2:21 · Psalm 19:10 · Psalm 24:7 · Psalm 32:1 · Psalm 50:13 · Psalm 115:4 · Psalm 116:15 · Psalm 135:15 · Proverbs 1:20 · Proverbs 1:21 · Proverbs 9:2 · Isaiah 1:18 · Isaiah 5:20 · Isaiah 40:15 · Isaiah 44:5 · Isaiah 57:1 · Baruch 6:3 · Ezekiel 33:11 · Daniel 3:12 · Daniel 3:16 · Amos 9:6 · Zechariah 13:9 · Matthew 4:10 · Matthew 5:10 · Matthew 7:12 · Matthew 10:16 · Matthew 10:19 · Matthew 10:21 · Matthew 10:34 · Matthew 10:39 · Matthew 13:3 · Matthew 14:3 · Matthew 16:13 · Matthew 16:23 · Matthew 20:20 · Matthew 20:21 · Matthew 20:22 · Matthew 20:23 · Matthew 22:21 · Matthew 22:37 · Matthew 25:36 · Mark 16:18 · Luke 6:23 · Luke 6:31 · Luke 14:26 · Luke 18:7 · John 21:18 · Acts 5:40 · Acts 7:59 · Acts 12:2 · Acts 21:11 · Acts 28:3 · Romans 4:7 · Romans 4:25 · Romans 5:3 · Romans 8:17 · Romans 8:32 · Romans 8:35 · Romans 11:34 · Romans 13:1 · Romans 13:6 · 1 Corinthians 15:41 · 2 Corinthians 4:8 · 2 Corinthians 11:23 · 2 Corinthians 12:10 · Philippians 1:29 · Philippians 1:30 · Philippians 2:17 · 2 Thessalonians 1:4 · 2 Timothy 1:7 · 2 Timothy 1:8 · 2 Timothy 2:11 · 2 Timothy 4:6 · 1 Peter 2:13 · 1 Peter 2:20 · 1 Peter 4:8 · 1 Peter 4:12 · 1 John 3:16 · 1 John 4:18 · Revelation 2:10 · Revelation 2:13 · Revelation 3:10 · Revelation 6:9 · Revelation 7:14 · Revelation 17:6 · Revelation 19:4 · Revelation 21:8