1 Thessalonians 5:5
Douay-Rheims
For all you are the children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Tertullian
But when he urges us not to give place to evil, he does not offer the suggestion that we should take to our heels, he only teaches that passion should be kept under restraint; and if he says that the time must be redeemed, because the days are evil, he wishes us to gain a lengthening of life, not by flight, but by wisdom. Besides, he who bids us shine as sons of light, does not bid us hide away out of sight as sons of darkness.
Source details
A.D. 220 · on 1Thess 5:5 (On Flight in Persecution)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.