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Tertullia'nus

whose name appears in the best MSS. under the form Q. Septimius Florens Tertullianus,is the most ancient of the Latin fathers now extant. Notwithstanding the celebrity which he has always enjoyed, our knowledge of his personal history is extremely limited, and is derived almost exclusively from a succinct notice by St. Jerome.From this we learn that Tertullian was a native of Carthage, the son of a proconsular centurion (an officer who appears to have acted as a sort of aide-de-camp to provincial governors); that he flourished chiefly during the reigns of Septimius Severus and of Caracalla; that he became a presbyter, and remained orthodox until he had reached the term of middle life, when, in consequence of the envy and ill-treatment which he experienced on the part of the Roman clergy, he went over to the Montanists, and wrote several books in defence of those heretics; that he lived to a great age, and was the author of many works.Various editors and historians of ecclesiastical literature have endeavoured to extend or illustrate the scanty information convey

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The Address of Q. Sept. Tertullian, To Scapula Tertullus, Proconsul of Africa. Tr. by Sir David Dalrymple (1790)

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ADDRESS

Q. SEPT. TERTULLIAN,

SCAPULA TERTULLUS,

PROCONSUL OF AFRICA

TRANSLATED

BY SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE

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EDINBURGH:

Printed by MURRAY & COCHRANE.
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MDCCXC.

The RIGHT REVEREND

JOHN BUTLER, D.D.

BISHOP of HEREFORD,

THIS TREATISE

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

DAV. DALRYMPLE.

PREFACE

I Offer to the Public a Version of the Address of TERTULLIAN to SCAPULA. The merit of the original is well known. It contains many circumstances respecting the state of the Church soon after the commencement of the third century, and therefore may be reckoned among the valuable Remains of Christian Antiquity.

The traces of a wild imagination are not so discernable in the Address to SCAPULA, as in the other works of TERTULLIAN. The topics which he uses, seem, in

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Tertullian

Roman Christian theologian and writer (c. 155 – c. 220)

Tertullian (; Latin: Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; c. 155 – c. 220 AD^[1]) was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.^[3] He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature and was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including contemporary Christian Gnosticism.^[4]

Tertullian was the first theologian to write in Latin, and so has been called "the father of Latin Christianity",^[5] as well as "the founder of Western theology".^[7] He is perhaps most famous for being the first writer in Latin known to use the term trinity (Latin: trinitas).^[8]

Tertullian originated new theological concepts and advanced the development of early Church doctrine. However, some of his teachings, such as the subordination of the Son and Spirit to the Father, were later rejected by the Church.^[9] According to Jerome, he later joined the