“Day
after day, indeed, you groan over the increasing number of the
Christians. Your constant cry is, that the state is beset (by us);
that Christians are in your fields, in your camps, in your islands.
You grieve over it as a calamity, that each sex, every age – in
short, every rank – is passing over from you to us; yet you do not
even after this set your minds upon reflecting whether there be not
here some latent good.” Tertullian, To the Nations, 1, ANF
3:109
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