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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: 83 of 199
url: https://scriptura.si/works/church-fathers-tertullian-minucius-felix-commodian-origen/83/
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 83. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/church-fathers-tertullian-minucius-felix-commodian-origen/83/"
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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.

## 83. Of the Harmony of the Fathers of the Old and New Testaments · 10 of 10

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[¶0] 380 For which cause, driven from the band, he bore

[¶1] This sacrilegious brood, the dragon’s breath

[¶2] Engendering it. Blooming in piety

[¶3] United stood the Church of Rome, compact

[¶4] By Peter: whose successor, too, himself,

[¶5] 385 And now in the ninth place, Hyginus was,

[¶6] The burden undertaking of his chair.

[¶7] After him followed Pius—Hermas his

[¶8] Own brother was; angelic “Pastor” he,

[¶9] Because he spake the words delivered him:

[¶10] 390 And Anicetus the allotted post

[¶11] In pious order undertook. ’Neath whom

[¶12] Marcion here coming, the new Pontic pest,

[¶13] (The secret daring deed in his own heart

[¶14] Not yet disclosed,) went, speaking commonly,

[¶15] 395 In all directions, in his perfidy,

[¶16] With lurking art. But after he began

[¶17] His deadly arrows to produce, cast off

[¶18] Deservedly (as author of a crime

[¶19] So savage), reprobated by the saints,

[¶20] 400 He burst, a wondrous monster! on our view.