You fool, that which you sow is not made alive, except it die:
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
And with a felicitous sally he proceeds at once to illustrate the point, as if an objector had plied him with some such question. "Thou fool "says he, "that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die."
