Tertullian, On Patience. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1885), public domain.
Passages · 16
- On Patience Chapter 1 — Of Patience Generally; And Tertullian's Own Unworthiness to Treat of It. VI. I fully confess unto the Lord God that it has been rash enough, if not even impudent, in me to have dared compose a treatise on Patience,…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 2 — God Himself an Example of Patience. To us no human affectation of canine equanimity, modelled by insensibility, furnishes the warrant for exercising patience; but the divine arrangement of a living and celestial…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 3 — Jesus Christ in His Incarnation and Work a More Imitable Example Thereof. And this species of the divine patience indeed being, as it were, at a distance, may perhaps be esteemed as among “things too high for us;”…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 4 — Duty of Imitating Our Master Taught Us by Slaves. Even by Beasts. Obedient Imitation is Founded on Patience. Chapter IV.—Duty of Imitating Our Master Taught Us by Slaves. Even by Beasts. Obedient Imitation is Founded…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 5 — As God is the Author of Patience So the Devil is of Impatience. Nevertheless, the proceeding of a discussion on the necessaries of faith is not idle, because it is not unfruitful. In edification no loquacity is base,…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 6 — Patience Both Antecedent and Subsequent to Faith. Accordingly it is patience which is both subsequent and antecedent to faith. In short, Abraham believed God, and was accredited by Him with righteousness; but it was…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 7 — The Causes of Impatience, and Their Correspondent Precepts. Now, however, while we run through the causes of impatience, all the other precepts also will answer in their own places. If our spirit is aroused by the…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 8 — Of Patience Under Personal Violence and Malediction. We who carry about our very soul, our very body, exposed in this world to injury from all, and exhibit patience under that injury; shall we be hurt at the loss of…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 9 — Of Patience Under Bereavement. Not even that species of impatience under the loss of our dear ones is excused, where some assertion of a right to grief acts the patron to it. For the consideration of the apostle’s…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 10 — Of Revenge. There is, too, another chief spur of impatience, the lust of revenge, dealing with the business either of glory or else of malice. But “glory,” on the one hand, is everywhere “vain;” and malice, on the…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 11 — Further Reasons for Practising Patience. Its Connection with the Beatitudes. After these principal material causes of impatience, registered to the best of our ability, why should we wander out of our way among the…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 12 — Certain Other Divine Precepts. The Apostolic Description of Charity. Their Connection with Patience. Chapter XII.—Certain Other Divine Precepts. The Apostolic Description of Charity. Their Connection with Patience.…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 13 — Of Bodily Patience. Thus far, finally, of patience simple and uniform, and as it exists merely in the mind: though in many forms likewise I labour after it in body, for the purpose of “winning the Lord;” inasmuch as…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 14 — The Power of This Twofold Patience, the Spiritual and the Bodily. Exemplified in the Saints of Old. Chapter XIV.—The Power of This Twofold Patience, the Spiritual and the Bodily. Exemplified in the Saints of Old.…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 15 — General Summary of the Virtues and Effects of Patience. So amply sufficient a Depositary of patience is God. If it be a wrong which you deposit in His care, He is an Avenger; if a loss, He is a Restorer; if pain, He…vatican.va
- On Patience Chapter 16 — The Patience of the Heathen Very Different from Christian Patience. Theirs Doomed to Perdition. Ours Destined to Salvation. Chapter XVI.—The Patience of the Heathen Very Different from Christian Patience. Theirs…vatican.va
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