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Originally Posted by mizpeh
Tertullian was the first Christian writer to write in Latin 5, and was described three centuries later as writing 'first, and best, and incomparably', of all the writers to do so. (by the unknown author of 'Praedestinatus'). His writing is aggressive, sarcastic and brilliant6, and at points very funny even after 2000 years7. He was deeply conscious of his own failings8, and had a burning desire for truth and integrity9. He was described by Jerome as celebrated in all the churches as a speaker10; and his works bear the marks of the need to keep an audience awake!11 His erudition was immense. Much of what he read is lost, but what remains gives a picture of wide reading12, which was celebrated even in antiquity12a.
http://www.tertullian.org/readfirst.htm
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I'd like to know what latin term he used for the word person...something seems odd when he refers to this as the economy. I wonder if Praxeas so called heresy was that he said the Father is the son, not that the Son is another mode of the Father/God
If Tertullian used the word prosopon or personal then I wonder what difference there is between him and a real modalist (masks)
Did Tertullian use the word hypostasis? Man I wish Chancellor was here
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