SCRIPTURA

Various Church Fathers · Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian and Origen · 73 of 199

Of the Harmony of the Old and New Laws · 9 of 9

Translated by S. Thelwall and others; A. Cleveland Coxe (ed.)

Shall ever joy, and joying, shall lack death;

Exclaiming that “the body’s cruel foe

Is vanquisht quite; death, by the victory

Of the brave Christ, is swallowed;” praises high

355 Bearing to God, unto the highest stars.