“Therefore
God suffers that we thus suffer; for but very lately, in condemning a
Christian woman to the leno [brothel] rather than to the leo
[lion] you made confession that a taint on our purity is considered
among us as something more terrible than any punishment and any
death. Nor does your cruelty, however exquisite, avail you; it is
rather a temptation to us. The oftener we are mown down by you, the
more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.”
Tertullian, Apology, 50, ANF 3:55
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