08/19/2022 – “The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.” Tertullian (150 a.d. – 225 a.d.) / Attached – comments with bio.
And who knows, their suffering may be God’s path for leading them to Christ as a “last” resort. You never know and just saying…
Brothers, I encourage y’all to briefly take a look at Tertullian’s biography summary. If I were a headmaster at a Christian worldview school, A course in “founding fathers of our face” would be in the curriculum; they are the warriors that went before us.
The best of men are men at best. God designs us and loves us uniquely, given our own set of gifts and personality characteristics. We could use more warriors like Tertullian today in the body of Christ. I will share one paragraph from the link , and I expect you will recognize why I say that.
“Because of his fiery temperament and forceful convictions, nearly all of Tertullian’s writings have polemic overtones. Church historian Phillip Schaff said of him: “He resembled a foaming mountain torrent rather than a calm, transparent river in the valley. His vehement temper was never fully subdued, although he struggled sincerely against it. He was a man of strong convictions, and never hesitated to express them without fear or favor. …His polemics everywhere leave marks of blood. It is a wonder that he was not killed by the heathens, or excommunicated by the Catholics.” [Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, vol. 2 (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1910), pp. 822-824].”
https://www.theopedia.com/tertullian attach bio
Soli Deo Gloria!