Ad Nationes
Tertullian
Book 1 · Chapter 13
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Chapter XIII.—The Charge of Worshipping the Sun Met by a Retort.
Others, with greater regard to good manners, it must be
Opening the library…
Opening the library…
Ad Nationes
Tertullian
Others, with greater regard to good manners, it must be
Sunday.
Saturday.
Ex diebus.
On the “Cœna pura,” see our Anti-Marcion, p. 386, note 4.
See Lev. xxiv. 2; also 2 Chron. xiii. 11. Witsius (Ægyptiaca, ii. 16, 17) compares the Jewish with the Egyptian “ritus lucernarum.”
Tertullian, in his tract de Jejun. xvi., speaks of the Jews praying (after the loss of their temple, and in their dispersion) in the open air, “per omne litus.”