{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030793.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030793.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030793.htm","text":"Chapter II.\u2014God Himself an Example of Patience.\nTo us 9020 no human affectation of canine 9021 equanimity, modelled 9022 by insensibility, furnishes the warrant for exercising patience; but the divine arrangement of a living and celestial discipline, holding up before us God p. 708 Himself in the very first place as an example of patience; who scatters equally over just and unjust the bloom of this light; who suffers the good offices of the seasons, the services of the elements, the tributes of entire nature, to accrue at once to worthy and unworthy; bearing with the most ungrateful nations, adoring as they do the toys of the arts and the works of their own hands, persecuting His Name together with His family; bearing with luxury, avarice, iniquity, malignity, waxing insolent daily: 9023 so that by His own patience He disparages Himself; for the cause why many believe not in the Lord is that they are so long without knowing 9024 that He is wroth with the world. 9025\ni.e. cynical = \u03ba\u03c5\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 = doglike. But Tertullian appears to use \u201ccanin\u00e6\u201d purposely, and I have therefore retained it rather than substitute (as Mr. Dodgson does) \u201ccynical.\u201d\n707:9022\ni.e. the affectation is modelled by insensibility.\n708:9023\nSee Ps. lxxiv. 23 in A.V. It is Ps. lxxiii. in the LXX.\n708:9024\nBecause they see no visible proof of it.\n708:9025","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part III: God H...","type":"page"}