For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that has so done this deed,
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
(lust) which he had condemned after calling to his aid even "the Lord's power "for fear the sentence should seem human. Therefore he has trifled both with his own "spirit".
If we also, in our diverse provinces, (but) present mutually in spirit,