The Church

The Apostles Sent Out

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Christ chose the apostles and sent them out to preach, as the prophets had foretold.

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Tertullian

c. 155–c. 220 AD · Against Marcion 3.22

You have also the apostles’ work preached: How timely the feet of those evangelizing peace, evangelizing good things—not war nor evils. A psalm also answers: Into all the earth their sound went out and into the ends of the earth their voices—of those of course carrying around the law that went forth from Zion and the…

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Tertullian

c. 155–c. 220 AD · Against Marcion 4.13

Assuredly he evangelizes Zion and Jerusalem with peace and all good things; assuredly he goes up on a mountain and spends the night there in prayer and is of course heard by the Father.

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Tertullian

c. 155–c. 220 AD · Against Marcion 4.24

He also brings forward another seventy apostles on top of the twelve. After all, if the twelve correspond to the seventy-two springs at Elim, why would the seventy not correspond to the seventy-two palm groves? (Exodus 15:27) It is antithesis that created the greatest diversity of causes, not of powers.

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