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Its most remarkable exponent among Christian writers was, up to the time of his conversion, a pleader in the Carthaginian law-courts. Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus was born at Carthage towards the end of the reign of Antoninus Pius.
Post quam plures exhibitos, pro Christiana Repub. labores, vir eruditione insignis, et tum Graece, tum Latine peritus, vt Tertullianus alter, quorundam Clericorum lacessitus iniurijs, grauatim tulit, ac tandem a fide defecit. Peragratis igitur deinceps Gallijs, in Aegyptum, et Syriam aliasque orientis Regiones demum peruenit.
“That man, Tertullianus, is nothing to us, uncle,” answered Agellius; “a man of great ability, but he quarrelled with us, and left us.” “I can’t draw nice distinctions,” said Jucundus. “Your people have quarrelled among themselves perhaps on an understanding; we can’t split hairs. It’s the same with your present hierophant at Carthage, Cyprianus.
Every now and then,” he continued in a more measured and lower tone, “every now and then the secret is blabbed—blabbed. There was that Tertullianus of Carthage, some fifty years since. He wrote books; books have done a great deal of harm before now; but read his books—read and ponder.
Treatise of Human Nature, book i., part iv., sect. vi., "Of Personal Identity": "I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception." Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church, lecture i., sect. iii. 1 Cor. i. 23. Paris, 1910. Parce unicæ spes totius orbis. TERTULLIANUS, Adversus Marcionem, 5.
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