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Tertullian, Quintus Septimius Florens

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One of the Latin Fathers, born at Carthage, the son of a Roman centurion; was well educated; bred a rhetorician; was converted to Christianity, became presbyter of Carthage, and embraced Montanist views (q. v .); wrote numerous works, apologetical, polemical, doctrinal, and practical, the last of an ascetic tendency (150-230).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Tertullian, Quintus Septimius Florens'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​t/tertullian-quintus-septimius-florens.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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