Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
For the Jews say, that from the beginning God sanctified the seventh day, by resting on it from all His works which He made; and that thence it was, likewise, that Moses said to the People: "Remember the day of the sabbaths, to sanctify it: every servile work ye shall not do therein, except what pertaineth unto life.".
As we have found, they were both sketched out beforehand. When he speaks of "the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free".
It was not meet that those who had received liberty should be "entangled again with the yoke of bondage".
Xerophagies, however, (they consider) the novel name of a studied duty, and very much akin to heathenish superstition, like the abstemious rigours which purify an Apis, an Isis, and a Magna Mater, by a restriction laid upon certain kinds of food; whereas faith, free in Christ,
