On Patience
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3rd c. · Moral & Pastoral · English translation, 1890
Source edition: The Ante-Nicene Fathers (ed. Roberts & Donaldson, 1885)
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Contents
On Patience
- 1. Of Patience Generally; And Tertullian’s Own Unworthiness to Treat of It
- 2. God Himself an Example of Patience
- 3. Jesus Christ in His Incarnation and Work a More Imitable Example Thereof
- 4. Duty of Imitating Our Master Taught Us by Slaves. Even by Beasts. Obedient…
- 5. As God is the Author of Patience So the Devil is of Impatience
- 6. Patience Both Antecedent and Subsequent to Faith
- 7. The Causes of Impatience, and Their Correspondent Precepts
- 8. Of Patience Under Personal Violence and Malediction
- Chapter 9.—Of Patience Under Bereavement
- Chapter 10.—Of Revenge
- 11. Further Reasons for Practising Patience. Its Connection with the Beatitudes
- 12. Certain Other Divine Precepts. The Apostolic Description of Charity. Their…
- Chapter 13.—Of Bodily Patience
- 14. The Power of This Twofold Patience, the Spiritual and the Bodily…
- 15. General Summary of the Virtues and Effects of Patience
- 16. The Patience of the Heathen Very Different from Christian Patience. Theirs…
Elucidations