1 Timothy 6:12
Douay-Rheims
Fight the good fight of faith: lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called, and hast confessed a good confession before many witnesses.
Tertullian
In like manner, O blessed, consider whatever is hard in your present situation as an exercise of your powers of mind and body. You are about to enter a noble contest in which the living God acts the part of superintendent and the Holy Spirit is your trainer, a contest whose crown is eternity, whose prize is angelic nature, citizenship in heaven for ever and ever.
Source details
A.D. 220 · on 1Tim 6:12 (TO THE MARTYRS 3.3)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.