Tertullian: source notes

Topic: baptism

Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0321.htm
Text: “Happy is our sacrament of water, in that, by washing away the sins of our early blindness, we are set free and admitted into eternal life!”
Context: Written c. 200 against a Cainite teacher who rejected baptism.
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Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0321.htm
Text: “And so, according to the circumstances and disposition, and even age, of each individual, the delay of baptism is preferable; principally, however, in the case of little children. For why is it necessary — if (baptism itself) is not so necessary — that the sponsors likewise should be thrust into danger?”
Context: Tertullian advises delay, which presupposes that infants were in fact being baptized, with sponsors. His reason is the danger of post-baptismal sin, not that infant baptism is invalid.
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Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/03124.htm
Text: “He made it His own body, by saying, This is my body, that is, the figure of my body. A figure, however, there could not have been, unless there were first a veritable body.”
Context: Against Marcion’s phantom Christ. “Figure” (figura) is used to prove Christ’s real body. The word does not mean what modern ‘merely symbolic’ means.
Bears on: E1
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Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0310.htm
Text: “whatever amount of punishment or refreshment the soul tastes in Hades, in its prison or lodging, in the fire or in Abraham’s bosom, it gives proof thereby of its own corporeality.”
Context: An intermediate state in Hades, with punishment or refreshment (cf. Luke 16).
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Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0304.htm
Text: “As often as the anniversary comes round, we make offerings for the dead as birthday honours.”
Context: Listed among unwritten customs held by tradition.
Bears on: L2
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Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0316.htm
Text: “The resurrection of the dead is the Christian’s trust. By it we are believers.”
Context: Against those who denied the resurrection of the flesh.
Bears on: L4
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Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0311.htm (NPNF/ANF English translation)
Text: “That Faith, Therefore, is Apostolic, Which Descended from the Apostles, Through Apostolic Churches.”
Context: Heretics are to be refuted from the apostolic churches’ rule.
Bears on: C3
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Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0317.htm (NPNF/ANF English translation)
Text: “distributes the Unity into a Trinity, placing in their order the three Persons— the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost: three, however, not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in form; not in power, but in aspect; yet of one substance, and of one condition, and of one power, inasmuch as He is one God, from whom these degrees and forms and aspects are reckoned, under the name of the Father, and of the …”
Context: Against modalism; first Latin ‘Trinity … one substance’.
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Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0321.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “Of the Unction After this, when we have issued from the font, we are thoroughly anointed with a blessed unction, — (a practice derived) from the old discipline, wherein on entering the priesthood, men were wont to be anointed with oil from a horn, ever since Aaron was anointed by Moses.”
Context: Rite after the font.
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Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0321.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “Types of the Deluge and the Dove In the next place the hand is laid on us, invoking and inviting the Holy Spirit through benediction.”
Context:
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Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0320.htm (public-domain English translation)
Text: “And thus exomologesis is a discipline for man’s prostration and humiliation, enjoining a demeanor calculated to move mercy.”
Context: Public penance.
Bears on: K2
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