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원문출처: “Early latin theology”, The Library of Christian Classics: Ichthus Edition. vol. V. 영역, 편집자: Canon S.L. Greenslade ​ On Idolatry 우상숭배에 관하여 Introduction 영역자(S. L. Greenslade)의 책 소개 ​ I When Tertullian addressed his Apology for Christianity to the magistrates of the Roman Empire, he was concerned to prove that Christians were loyal and valuable citizens. They prayed for the Emperor and those..

42. What am I to say about the ministry of the word? Their concern is not to convert the heathen, but to subvert our folk. The glory they seek comes from bringing the upright down, not raising the fallen up. Since their work results from no constructive operations of their own, but from the destruction of the truth, they undermine our constructions to build their own. Take their complaints again..

37. If therefore truth must be adjudged to us “as many as walk according to this rule” which the Church has handed down from the apostles, the apostles from Christ, and Christ from God, the principle which we propounded is established, the principle which ruled that heretics are not to be allowed to enter an appeal to Scripture, since, without using Scripture, we prove that they have nothing to ..

32. But if any heresies venture to plant themselves in the apostolic age, so that they may be thought to have been handed down by the apostles because they existed in their time, we can say, Let them exhibit the origins of their churches, let them unroll the list of their bishops, coming down from the beginning by succession in such a way that their first bishop had for his originator and predec..

27. If we cannot believe either that the apostles did not know the full scope of their message or that they did not publish to all the whole content of the Rule, we have to consider whether perhaps, while the apostles preached straightforwardly and full, the churches through their own fault altered what the apostles offered them. You will find the heretics putting forward all these incitements t..

22. But since the proof is so short and simple that, if it were brought forward at once, there would be nothing further to discuss, let us give place for a moment to the other side, as if we had not produced our proof. Perhaps they think they can set something in motion to weaken this prescription. Sometimes they say that the apostles did not know everything. Then they change their ground and sa..

16. Do not suspect me of raising this objection from want of confidence or from a desire to enter upon the issues in some other way. My reason is primarily the obedience which our faith owes to the Apostle when he forbids us to enter upon questionings, to lend our ears to novel sayings, to associate with a heretic after one correction – not, observe, after one discussion. In designating correcti..

10. The reasonable exegesis of this saying turns on three points: matter, time, and Limitation. As to matter, you are to consider what is to be sought; as to time, when; and as to limitation, how far. What you must seek is what Christ taught, precisely as long as you are not finding it, precisely until you do find it. And you did find it when you came to believe. You would not have believed if y..

6. I need say no more on that point, for it is the same Paul who elsewhere, when writing to the Galatians, classes heresy among the sins of the flesh, and who counsels Titus to shun a heretic after the first reproof because such a man is perverted and sinful, standing self-condemned. Besides, he censures heresy in almost every letter when he presses the duty of avoiding false doctrine, which is ..

The Prescriptions against the Heretics The Text (본문) 1. The times we live in provoke me to remark that we ought not to be surprised either at the occurrence of the heresies, since they were foretold, or at their occasional subversion of faith, since they occur precisely in order to prove faith by testing it. To be scandalized, as many are, by the great power of heresy is groundless and unthinkin..