“But "by patience," says He, "ye shall yourselves be saved." Of this very patience the Psalm says, "The patient endurance of the just shall not perish for ever; " because it is said in another Psalm, "Precious (in the sight of the Lord) is the death of the just"-arising, no doubt, out of their patient endurance, so tha…”
Tertullian, 3th c. — Against Marcion Book IV
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19In your patience possess ye your souls.
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17And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.
18But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
— Luke 21:19 —
20And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
21Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.