“Tertullian on The Rule of Faith - Original Latin Text with English translation”

from De Praescriptione Haereticorum, 13

 

Amazon Kindle Reading Device Click on picture for more details. For UK click here. -------------- Relevant books available at Amazon Studies   Eric Francis Osborn Tertullian, First Theologian of the West -------------- Tertullian: A Historical and Literary Study Timothy David Barnes --------------   Early Christian Thinkers: The Lives and Legacies of Twelve Key Figures Paul Foster (A helpful chapter) -------------- The Early Christian World P.F. Esler, with a helpful chapter by David Wright --------------   Tertullian and the Church David Rankin --------------  Ancient Rhetoric and the Art of Tertullian (Oxford theological monographs) Robert D. Sider --------------   David E. Wilhite --------------   Translations  Tertullian (The Early Church Fathers) Geoffrey D. Dunn --------------  Disciplinary, Moral And Ascetical Works R. Arbesmann, E.J. Daly, and E. A. Quain, eds. --------------  Tertullian: Apologetical Works, & Minucius Felix: Octavius Emily J. Daly, trans. --------------  28. Tertullian: Treatises on Penance: On Penitence and On Purity (Ancient Christian Writers) W.P. Le Saint, trans. --------------  13. Tertullian: Treatises on Marriage and Remarriage: To His Wife, An Exhortation to Chastity, Monogamy (Ancient Christian Writers) W.P. Le Saint, trans. --------------  Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian (Selections from the Fathers of the Church) Robert D. Sider, ed.  --------------  Tertullian, Cyprian, And Origen On The Lord's Prayer (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press Popular Patristics Series) Alistair Stewart-Sykes, ed.  --------------  24. Tertullian: The Treatise against Hermogenes (Ancient Christian Writers) J.H. Waszink, trans.

Now, with regard to this rule of faith—that we may from this point acknowledge what it is which we defend—it is, you must know, that which prescribes the belief that there is one only God, and that He is none other than the Creator of the world, who produced all things out of nothing through His own Word, first of all sent forth; that this Word is called His Son, and, under the name of God, was seen “in diverse manners” by the patriarchs, heard at all times in the prophets, at last brought down by the Spirit and Power of the Father into the Virgin Mary, was made flesh in her womb, and, being born of her, went forth as Jesus Christ; thenceforth He preached the new law and the new promise of the kingdom of heaven, worked miracles; having been crucified, He rose again the third day; (then) having ascended into the heavens, He sat at the right hand of the Father; sent instead of Himself the Power of the Holy Ghost to lead such as believe; will come with glory to take the saints to the enjoyment of everlasting life and of the heavenly promises, and to condemn the wicked to everlasting fire, after the resurrection of both these classes shall have happened, together with the restoration of their flesh. This rule, as it will be proved, was taught by Christ, and raises amongst ourselves no other questions than those which heresies introduce, and which make men heretics.

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Tertullian
On the Prescription of Heretics
Liber de Praescriptionibus adversus haereticos
The Rule of Faith
Creeds
Migne Latin
Patrologiae Latinae Cursus Completus
Patrologia Latina

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