For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is commendable with God.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Even hereunto were ye called, since Christ also suffered for us, leaving you Himself as an example, that ye should follow His own steps."
