Isaiah 5:20
Douay-Rheims
Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
Tertullian
For, in like manner, they also who oppose martyrdoms, representing salvation to be destruction, transmute sweet into bitter, as well as light into darkness. Thus, by preferring this very wretched life to that most blessed one, they put bitter for sweet, as well as darkness for light.
Source details
A.D. 220 · on Isa 5:20 (SCORPIACE 1)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.