Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Sy; nor is there any other cause whence they find themselves compelled to deny the Paraclete more than the fact that they esteem Him to be the institutor of a novel discipline, and a discipline which they find most harsh: so that this is already the first ground on which we must join issue in a general handling (of the subject), whether there is room for maintaining that the Paraclete has taught any such thing as can either be charged with novelty, in opposition to catholic tradition.
So truly did he turn away from his early opinions: nor did he sin by becoming an emulator not of ancestral but of Christian traditions,
