Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
He must be either the Creator, or (as Marcion would be loth to admit) One like the Creator-"with whom it is a righteous thing to recompense tribulation to them who afflict us, and to ourselves, who are afflicted, rest, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed as coming from heaven with the angels of His might and in flaming fire."