Ephesians 1:4
Douay-Rheims
As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in his sight in charity.
Tertullian
We have been predestined by God, before the world was, (to arise) in the extreme end of the times. And so we are trained by God for the purpose of chastising, and (so to say) emasculating, the world.
Source details
A.D. 220 · on Eph 1:4 (On the Apparel of Women Book II)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.