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Tertullian — on 2Cor 12:9 (Against Marcion Book I)

Patristic A.D. 220
Tertullian · c. A.D. 150–220
“All proof of abstinence is lost when excess is impossible; for sundry things have thus their evidence in their contraries. Just as "strength is made perfect in weakness," so likewise is continence made manifest by the permission to marry.”
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