And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
He cannot hope for the kingdom of the heavens, whose finger or wand abuses.
Let, then, the flesh begin to give you pleasure, since the Creator thereof is so great. But, you say, even the world is the work of God, and yet "the fashion of this world passeth away".
"Why, shall we not use what is our own? "Who prohibits your using it? Yet (it must be) in accordance with the apostle, who warns us "to use this world
