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Тертуллиан
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Другие имена: Tertullianus
Квинт Септи́мий Фло́ренс Тертуллиа́н — один из наиболее выдающихся раннехристианских писателей, теологов и апологетов, автор 40 трактатов, из которых сохранился 31. В зарождавшемся богословии Тертуллиан впервые выразил концепцию Троицы. Положил начало латинской патристике и церковной латыни — языку средневековой западной мысли.
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„It is to be believed because it is absurd.“
— Tertullian
Variant translations
It is by all means to be believed, because it is absurd.
It is is entirely credible, because it is inept.
It is certain because it is impossible.
De Carne Christi 5.4
Often paraphrased or misquoted as "Credo quia absurdum."
Also paraphrased as "It is so extraordinary that it must be true."
Two lines from De Carne Christi have often become conflated into the statement: "Credo quia impossibile" (I believe it because it is impossible), which can be perceived as a distortion of the actual arguments that Tertullian was making.
„You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.“
— Tertullian
Context: Notorious, too, are the dealings of heretics with swarms of magicians and charlatans and astrologers and philosophers — all, of course, devotees of speculation. You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
The Prescriptions Against the Heretics as translated by Stanley Lawrence Greenslade, in Early Latin Theology: Selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome (1956), p. 63
„We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance.“
— Tertullian
Context: We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance. There is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Ghost; but the Godhead of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one; the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal.
As quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 285
„Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues.“
— Tertullian
Context: Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language, yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere.
De Testimonio Animae (The Testimony of the Soul), 6.3
„We are not Indian Brahmins or Gymnosophists, who dwell in woods and exile themselves from ordinary human life. We do not forget the debt of gratitude we owe to God, our Lord and Creator; we reject no creature of His hands, though certainly we exercise restraint upon ourselves, lest of any gift of His we make an immoderate or sinful use. So we sojourn with you in the world.“
— Tertullian
Chapter 42
„Even when the ray is shot from the sun, it is still part of the parent mass; the sun will still be in the ray, because it is a ray of the sun—there is no division of substance, but merely an extension. Thus Christ is Spirit of Spirit, and God of God, as light of light is kindled.“
— Tertullian
Chapter 21
„See, they say, how they love one another, for themselves are animated by mutual hatred; how they are ready even to die for one another, for they themselves will sooner put to death.“
— Tertullian
Chapter 39, describing how Christianity is mocked by its enemies.
„He who flees will fight again.“
— Tertullian
De Fuga in Persecutione, 10
„We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.“
— Tertullian
Apologeticus, 50, s. 13
Often quoted as ‘The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.’
Variant translation: As often as we are mown down by you, the more we grow in numbers; the blood of the Christians is the seed. Another common translation is "The blood of the Martyrs is the seed of Christians."
„I shall dispel one empty story by another.“
— Tertullian
Variant translation: I must dispel vanity with vanity.
Adversus Marcionem, IV.30.3
