And you, that were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
They could not possibly have been to any other than their own God. Accordingly, ourselves "who were sometime alienated and enemies in our mind by wicked works".
The apostle indeed teaches, in his Epistle to the Colossians, that we were once dead, alienated, and enemies to the Lord in our minds, whilst we were living in wicked works;