And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Was the first to import into Rome from Asia this kind of heretical pravity, a man in other respects of restless disposition, and above all inflated with the pride of confessor ship simply and solely because he had to bear for a short time the annoyance of a prison; on which occasion, even "if he had given his body to be burned, it would have profiled him nothing "not having the love of God,
