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Œuvres Tertullien (160-220) De patientia Of Patience

Chapter II.--God Himself an Example of Patience.

To us 1 no human affectation of canine 2 equanimity, modelled 3 by insensibility, furnishes the warrant for exercising patience; but the divine arrangement of a living and celestial discipline, holding up before us God Himself in the very first place as an example of patience; who scatters equally over just and unjust the bloom of this light; who suffers the good offices of the seasons, the services of the elements, the tributes of entire nature, to accrue at once to worthy and unworthy; bearing with the most ungrateful nations, adoring as they do the toys of the arts and the works of their own hands, persecuting His Name together with His family; bearing with luxury, avarice, iniquity, malignity, waxing insolent daily: 4 so that by His own patience He disparages Himself; for the cause why many believe not in the Lord is that they are so long without knowing 5 that He is wroth with the world. 6


  1. i.e. us Christians. ↩

  2. i.e. cynical = kunikos = doglike. But Tertullian appears to use "caninae" purposely, and I have therefore retained it rather than substitute (as Mr. Dodgson does) "cynical." ↩

  3. i.e. the affectation is modelled by insensibility. ↩

  4. See Ps. lxxiv. 23 in A.V. It is Ps. lxxiii. in the LXX. ↩

  5. Because they see no visible proof of it. ↩

  6. Saeculo. ↩

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