Tertullian
3rd century · AD 220 · Early Fathers (before Nicaea) · 3,411 passages
A sharp North African writer, the first major Christian author in Latin, known for vivid defenses of the faith and of the resurrection of the body.
In his own words on Ezra
- Ezra 6:7
If (Noah) had not had this (conservative power) by so short a route, there would (still) be this (consideration) to warrant our assertion of (the genuineness of) this Scripture: he could equally have renewed it, under the Spirit's inspiration, after it had been destroyed by the violence of the deluge, as, after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian storming of it, every document of the Jewish literature is generally agreed to have been restored through Ezra.
On the Apparel of Women Book I
- Ezra 10:9
If these things are so, it is certain that believers contracting marriages with Gentiles are guilty of fornication, and are to be excluded from all communication with the brotherhood, in accordance with the letter of the apostle, who says that "with persons of that kind there is to be no taking of food even." [To His Wife 2.3 ANF v.4]
To His Wife Book II
- Ezra 10:10
Assuredly also, when (the apostle) rules that marriage should be "only in the Lord," (1 Cor. 7:39) that no Christian should intermarry with a heathen, he maintains a law of the Creator, who everywhere prohibits marriage with strangers.
Against Marcion Book V
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.