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By common consent the Against Praxeas of Tertullian is one of its author’s most important works. It possesses a positive and historic significance as the earliest surviving formal statement of the doctrine of the Trinity. It is true that the argument, at least so far as it is based on passages from the Greek version of the Old Testament, or on a Latin translation of that Greek, is not so...

provincials in Africa were acquainted with Greek, but the proportion of such persons was far less than would have been found in Italy. We have no evidence as to the date of Tertullian’s birth, but if we place it about A.D. 160, we shall probably not be far wrong. The date of his conversion is equally unknown, but it may be assigned to the period of mature manhood. He was a man of ardent temperament, unbounded energy and great creative faculty. In such a man conversion was sure to be followed at the
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