(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
For its salvation is endangered, not by its being ignorant of itself, but of the word of God. "The life "says He, "was manifested"