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title: "Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian and Origen"
author: "Various Church Fathers"
translator: "S. Thelwall and others; A. Cleveland Coxe (ed.)"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Church Fathers"
section: 73 of 199
url: https://scriptura.si/works/church-fathers-tertullian-minucius-felix-commodian-origen/73/
cite: "Various Church Fathers, tr. S. Thelwall and others; A. Cleveland Coxe (ed.), Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian and Origen, section 73. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/church-fathers-tertullian-minucius-felix-commodian-origen/73/"
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# Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian and Origen

*Various Church Fathers, tr. S. Thelwall and others; A. Cleveland Coxe (ed.)*

Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian, and Origen's On First Principles and Against Celsus.

## 73. Of the Harmony of the Old and New Laws · 9 of 9

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[¶0] Shall ever joy, and joying, shall lack death;

[¶1] Exclaiming that “the body’s cruel foe

[¶2] Is vanquisht quite; death, by the victory

[¶3] Of the brave Christ, is swallowed;” praises high

[¶4] 355 Bearing to God, unto the highest stars.