And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Who will ply the sword without practising the contraries to lenity and justice; that is, guile, and asperity, and injustice, proper (of course) to the business of battles? See we, then, whether that which has another action be not another sword,-that is, the Divine word of God, doubly sharpened