Give to every man that asks of you; and of him that takes away your goods ask them not again.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
This, however, is (the principle) of your good and simply beneficent god-to do a wrong to patience, to open the door to violence, to leave the righteous undefended, and the wicked unrestrained! "Give to every one that asketh of thee".
But they whose office it is, know that baptism is not rashly to be administered. "Give to every one who beggeth thee".
his host, speedily recognized him to be "an appointed vessel of election. "God's approbation sends sure premonitory tokens before it; every "petition ".
trusted with divine! Let them know how to "ask "for salvation, that you may seem (at least) to have given "to him that asketh.".
The law and the apostle-if, notwithstanding, you care even about this-with what face do you request (the solemnizing of) a matrimony which is unlawful to those of whom you request it; of a monogamist bishop, of presbyters and deacons bound by the same solemn engagement, of widows whose Order you have in your own person refused? And they, plainly, will give husbands and wives as they would morsels of bread; for this is their rendering of "To every one who asketh thee thou shalt give!"
