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Early Church Fathers

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3

Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe · AD 95–325 (English edition 1885–96)

Tertullian’s Apology, his works against Marcion and the heretics, and his moral writings.

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Contents

Tertullian

I. Apology50 pages

On Idolatry

II. On Idolatry24 pages

The Shows, or De Spectaculis

III. The Shows, or De Spectaculis30 pages

The Chaplet, or De Corona

IV. The Chaplet, or De Corona15 pages

To Scapula

V. To Scapula5 pages

Book I

VI. Ad Nationes. Book I38 pages

An Answer to the Jews

VII. An Answer to the Jews14 pages

The Soul's Testimony

VIII. The Soul's Testimony6 pages

A Treatise on the Soul

IX. A Treatise on the Soul57 pages

Tertullian

I. The Prescription Against Heretics33 pages

The Five Books Against Marcion

II. The Five Books Against Marcion. Book I. Wherein is described the god of Marcion. He is shown to be utterly wanting in all the attributes of the true God20 pages
Book II. Wherein Tertullian Shows That the Creator, or Demiurge, Whom Marcion Calumniated, Is the True and Good God20 pages
Book III. Wherein Christ is shown to be the Son of God, Who created the world; to have been predicted by the prophets; to have taken human flesh like our own, by a real incarnation34 pages
Additional Note5 pages

Against Hermogenes

III. Against Hermogenes. Containing an Argument Against His Opinion that Matter is Eternal43 pages
Against the Valentinians36 pages
On the Flesh of Christ21 pages
On the Resurrection of the Flesh58 pages

Against Praxeas

VII. Against Praxeas; In Which He Defends, in all Essential Points, the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity23 pages

Scorpiace

VIII. Scorpiace. Antidote for the Scorpion's Sting15 pages

Appendix

IX. Appendix. Against all Heresies8 pages

Part Third

I. On Repentance12 pages

On Baptism

II. On Baptism19 pages

On Prayer

III. On Prayer29 pages

Ad Martyras

IV. Ad Martyras6 pages
The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas3 pages

Of Patience

VI. Of Patience16 pages

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.