If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most to be pitied.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Now heard, except it be, forsooth, in the entertainments of the heretics? For, allowing that the word of the gospel may be called "the trump of God "since it was still calling men, yet they must at that time either be dead as to the body, that they may be able to rise again; and then how are they alive? Or else caught up into the clouds; and how then are they here? "Most miserable "no doubt, as the apostle declared them, are they "who in this life only "shall be found to have hope:
