...were enemies, we should not lack numbers and forces to defend ourselves from persecution. "We are but of yesterday, and yet we have filled every place belonging...islands, castles, towns, assemblies, your very camp, yonr tribes, companies, palace, senate, forum. We leave you nothing but your temples. We can count...

...Apology could even thus threaten the Roman Government : " We are," he said, " a people of yesterday, yet we have filled every place belonging to you, cities,...assemblies, your very camp, your tribes, companies, palaces, senate, forum. We leave you your temples only. We can count your armies, and our numbers in...

...at last broke down the strong holds of old Paganism. It was then the great Tertulliau exclaimed, " We are a people of yesterday, and yet we have filled every place : we leave you your temples only." I am tempted to apply this fragment of his immortal "Apology" to...

...I cannot even enumerate." " We are a people but of yesterday," again he exclaims in his Apology, " and yet we have filled every place belonging to you...cities, islands, castles, towns, assemblies, your very camps, your tribes, companies, palaces, senates, forum. We leave you your temples only. We can count...

...rather in his appeal, to the heathen persecutors on behalf of the Christians of his age, " We are but a people of yesterday, and yet we have filled every...cities, islands, castles, towns, assemblies, your very camps, your tribes, companies, palaces, senates, forum. We leave you your temples only. We can count...

...alike over all parts of the empire. " We are a people of yesterday," says Tertullian in his Apology, "and yet we have filled every place belonging to you — cities, islands, castles, towns, assemblies, youi very camp, your tribes, companies, palace, senate, forum ! We leave you your temples only. We...

...conversions among the higher classes. So that even Tertullian could say : " We are of yesterday, and yet have filled every place belonging to you, — cities,...assemblies, your very camp, your tribes, companies, senate and forum ; " 21 and Eusebius observes that since the time of Commodus "the saving word has...

...conversions among the higher classes. So that even Tertullian could say : " We are of yesterday, and yet have filled every place belonging to you, — cities,...assemblies, your very camp, your tribes, companies, senate and forum ; " 2l and Eusebius observes that since the time of Commodus "the saving word has...

...as when, for instance, he dilates on the recent origin and rapid progress of Christianity : " We are of yesterday, and yet we have filled every place belonging...islands, castles, towns, assemblies, your very camp, companies, palace, senate, forum. We leave you your temples only." A few chapters before, he had said...

...not invoked (Dial, cum Triph., n. 117). "We are a people of yesterday," says Tertullian (Apol. 37), " and yet we have filled every place belonging to you;...cities, islands, castles, towns, assemblies, your very camps, your tribes, companies, palace, senate, forum ! We leave you but your temples." But did not...