But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Since therefore he said, that the Gentiles were without God, whilst their god was the devil, not the Creator, it is clear that he must be understood to be the lord of this world, whom the Gentiles received as their god-not the Creator, of whom they were in ignorance. But how does it happen, that "the treasure which we have in these earthen vessels of ours"