Tertullian

For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),

“Assuredly also, when (the apostle) rules that marriage should be "only in the Lord," that no Christian should intermarry with a heathen, he maintains a law of the Creator, who everywhere prohibits marriage with strangers.”

Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

“Thus it comes to pass that "all things are lawful, but not all are expedient," so long as (it remains true that) whoever has a "permission" granted is (thereby) tried, and is (consequently) judged during the process of trial in (the case of the particular)…”

For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

“What was the use, however, of adducing the Creator's, which he was destroying? It was vain to do so; for his god had no such authority!”

To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under…

“Their truth may be inferred from their agreement with the apostle's own profession, how "to the Jews he became as a Jew, that he might gain the Jews, and to them that were under the law, as under the law,"-and so here with respect to…”

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”

“Will his antagonist make me better disposed to him? Should I now commit the same sins as the people, shall I have to suffer the same penalties, or not?”

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

“Thus the crown also is made out to be an offering to idols; for with this ceremony, and dress, and pomp, it is presented in sacrifice to idols, its originators, to whom its use is specially given over, and chiefly on this account, that what…”

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.

“Nor do we dislike the temples less than the monuments: we have nothing to do with either altar, we adore neither image; we do not offer sacrifices to the gods, and we make no funeral oblations to the departed; nay, we do not partake of…”

But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of…

“If the creature is defiled by a mere word, as the apostle teaches, "But if any one say, This is offered in sacrifice to idols, you must not touch it," much more when it is polluted by the dress, and rites, and pomp of what…”

And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved.

“For they who allow to virgins immunity from head-covering, appear to rest on this; that the apostle has not defined "virgins" by name, but "women," as "to be veiled; "nor the sex generally, so as to say "females," but a class of the sex, by…”

If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off.

“If they are so weak in their hearing as not to be able to hear through a covering, I pity them. Let them know that the whole head constitutes "the woman." Its limits and boundaries reach as far as the place where the robe begins.”

Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.

“Since then he is the image of the Creator (for He, when looking on Christ His Word, who was to become man, said, "Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness" ), how can I possibly have another head but Him whose…”

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night He was betrayed, took bread,

“In like manner, when treating of the gospel, we have proved from the sacrament of the bread and the cup the verity of the Lord's body and blood in opposition to Marcion's phantom; whilst throughout almost the whole of my work it has been contended…”

The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.

“This, too, I may confidently say: he who has likened the unity of our body throughout its manifold and divers members to the compacting together of the various gifts of the Spirit, shows also that there is but one Lord of the human body and…”

and the parts we consider less honorable, we treat with greater honor. And our unpresentable parts are treated with special modesty,

“He will love the flesh which is, so very closely and in so many ways, His neighbour-(He will love it), although infirm, since His strength is made perfect in weakness; although disordered, since "they that are whole need not the physician, but they that are…”

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

“But among brethren and fellow-servants, where there is common hope, fear, joy, grief, suffering, because there is a common Spirit from a common Lord and Father, why do you think these brothers to be anything other than yourself?”

But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.

“This Spirit, (according to the apostle's showing, ) meant not that the service of these gifts should be in the body, nor did He place them in the human body); and on the subject of the superiority of love above all these gifts, He even…”

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

“This Spirit, (according to the apostle's showing, ) meant not that the service of these gifts should be in the body, nor did He place them in the human body); and on the subject of the superiority of love above all these gifts, He even…”

If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

“For he was the first to import into Rome from Asia this kind of heretical pravity, a man in other respects of restless disposition, and above all inflated with the pride of confessorship simply and solely because he had to bear for a short time…”

and the secrets of his heart will be made known. So he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is truly among you!”

“Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his god, some prophets, such as have not spoken by human sense, but with the Spirit of God, such as have both predicted things to come, and have made manifest the secrets of the heart; let him produce…”

Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.

“Indeed, since he proposes as his examples "wheat grain, or some other grain, to which God giveth a body, such as it hath pleased Him; " since also he says, that "to every seed is its own body; " that, consequently, "there is one kind…”

“Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”

“Now, if the dominion of death operates only in the dissolution of the flesh, in like manner death's contrary, life, ought to produce the contrary effect, even the restoration of the flesh; so that, just as death had swallowed it up in its strength, it…”

All the brothers here send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

“But when is peace more to be concluded with brethren than when, at the time of some religious observance, our prayer ascends with more acceptability; that they may themselves participate in our observance, and thereby be mollified for transacting with their brother touching.”