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 Haggai
- Haggai 2:4
In the next place, he was stripped of his former solid raiment and adorned with a garment down to the foot, and with a turban and a clean miter, that is, [with the garb] of the second advent; since he is demonstrated as having attained "glory and honor." [Since stripped] you will not be able to say that the man [there depicted] is the "son of Jehozadak," who was never clad in a sordid garment but was always adorned with the sacerdotal garment, nor ever deprived of the sacerdotal function.
ANSWER TO THE JEWS 14
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.