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Tertullian, on Gal 5:26
Tertullian · c. A.D. 150–220
Gal 5:26 · Douay-Rheims
“Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying on another.”
On this verse:
“There is, too, another chief spur of impatience, the lust of revenge, dealing with the business either of glory or else of malice. But "glory," on the one hand, is everywhere "vain; " and malice, on the other, is always odious to the Lord; in this case indeed most of all, when, being provoked by a neighbour's malice, it constitutes itself superior in following out revenge, and by paying wickedness doubles that which has once been done.”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.