{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030770.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030770.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030770.htm","text":"Chapter XXVI.\u2014Of the Parting of Brethren.\nYou will not dismiss a brother who has entered your house without prayer.\u2014\u201cHave you seen,\u201d says Scripture, \u201ca brother? you have seen your Lord;\u201d 8931 \u2014especially \u201ca stranger,\u201d lest perhaps he be \u201can angel.\u201d But again, when received yourself by brethren, you will not make 8932 earthly refreshments prior to heavenly, for your faith will forthwith be judged. Or else how will you\u2014according to the precept 8933 \u2014say, \u201cPeace to this house,\u201d unless you exchange mutual peace with them who are in the house?\nI have ventured to turn the first part of the sentence into a question. What \u201cscripture\u201d this may be, no one knows. [It seems to me a clear reference to Matt. xxv. 38, amplified by the Matt. 25.45, in a way not unusual with our author.] Perhaps, in addition to the passages in Gen. 18:0, Heb. 13:2, to which the editors naturally refer, Tertullian may allude to such passages as Mark 9:37, Matt. 25:40, 45. [Christo in pauperibus.]\n690:8932\nI have followed Routh\u2019s conjecture, \u201cfeceris\u201d for \u201cfecerit,\u201d which Oehler does not even notice.\n690:8933","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part III: Of th...","type":"page"}