Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received from us.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Again, they say the same apostle has left a precept, according to his own example, "That each one work with his own hands for a living.".
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.
"For I offer you withal, for your investigation, this very question: Whether there were in the first Epistle others, too, who "wholly saddened "the apostle by "acting disorderly".
What more disgraceful than immodesties? If, moreover, even from a "brother "who "walketh idly"
