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| | Tertullian : An Address to the Martyrs. Library of the Fathers 10, Oxford (1842), pp. 150-157. Tr. C. Dodgson |
 | | Let us, that are to obtain an eternal one, consider our prison as a wrestling-ground, that, having been daily exercised in all kinds of hardships, we may be brought forth to the course before the judgment-seat; for virtue is built up by hardness, but by softness is destroyed. |
 | | For for this cause He first said that the spirit is ready, that He might shew which ought to be subject to the other, to wit, that the flesh should serve the spirit, the weaker the stronger, p155 that from it it may itself also receive strength. |
 | | Let the spirit confer with the flesh about the common salvation of both, not now thinking of the grievances of the prison, but of the contest and fight itself. |
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