And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he made alive together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Thanks to this simplicity of truth, so opposed to the subtlety and vain deceit of philosophy, we cannot possibly have any relish for such perverse opinions. Then, if God "quickens us together with Christ, forgiving us our trespasses".
For unto this end was manifested the Son of God, to undo the works of the devil: "for He has "undone "them withal, by setting man free through baptism, the "handwriting of death "having been "made a gift of "to him: