For they themselves show of us what manner of welcome we had unto you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
, quitting the idols which formerly it used slavishly to serve, has been converted to the same God from whom Israel, as we have above related, had departed.
For we read: "How ye turned from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus."