On Prayer
Tertullian
Chapter 8
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Chapter VIII.—The Seventh or Final Clause.
For the completeness of so brief a prayer He added—in order
Opening the library…
Opening the library…
On Prayer
Tertullian
For the completeness of so brief a prayer He added—in order
See James i. 13.
Implied in the one hypothesis—ignorance.
Implied in the other—wishing to overthrow faith.
i.e. no children even. The reference is apparently to Matt. x. 37 and Luke xiv. 26, with which may be compared Deut. xiii. 6–10 and xxxiii. 9. If Oehler’s reading, which I have followed, be correct, the precept, which is not verbally given till ages after Abraham, is made to have a retrospective force on him.
See Matt. iv. 10; Luke iv. 8.
Luke xxii. 40; Matt. xxvi. 41; Mark xiv. 31.
Routh refers us to De Bapt. c. 20, where Tertullian refers to the same event. [Note also his reference to De Fuga, cap. ii.]