on, kai ten ouranon en te doxe tou Patros parousian. . . .
Touto to kerugma pareilephuia kai tauten ten pistin, hos
proephamen, he Ekklesia, kaiper en holo to kosmo diesparmene,
epimelos phulassei, hos hena oikon oikousa; kai homoios pisteuei
toutois, hos mian psuchen kai ten auten echousa kardian, kai
sumphonos tauta kerusse kai didaskei, kai paradidosin, hos hen
stoma kektemene, kai gar hai kata ton kosmon dialektoi anomoiai,
all' he dunamis tes paradoseos mia kai he aute."
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He goes on to say that in this Faith agree the Churches of
Germany, Spain, Gaul, The East, Egypt, Libya, and Italy. His
words are: "No otherwise have the Churches established in Germany
believed and delivered, nor those in Spain, nor those among the
Celts, nor those in the East, nor in Egypt, nor in Libya, nor
those established in the central parts of the earth."+

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+ Contra Haeres., I. x. 2. "Kai oute hai en Germaniais hidrumenai
Ekklesiai allos pepisteukasin, e allos paradidoasin, oute en tais
Iberiasis, oute en Keltois, oute kata tas anatolas, oute en
Aigupto, oute en Libue, oute hai kata mesa tou kosmou hidrumenai."
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Again, in the same work we read of the many races of Barbarians
"who believe in Christ . . . believe in one God, the Framer of
heaven and earth and of all things that are in them, by Christ
Jesus the Son of God, who for His surpassing love's sake towards
His creatures, submitted to the birth which was of the Virgin,
Himself by Himself uniting man to God."#

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# Contra Haeres., III. iv. x, 2. "Qui in Christum credunt...
in unum Deum credentes, Factorem coeli et terrae, et omnium
quae in eis sunt, per Iesum Christum Dei Filium; qui propter
eminentissimam erga figmentum Suum dilectionem, eam quae esset
ex Virgine generationem sustinuit, ipse per se hominem adunans Deo."
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5. Tertullian.

His writings represent the teaching of the Churches of Rome and
Carthage, and, writing a little later than Irenaeus (c. 200), he
assures us again and again that the Virgin-Birth is an integral
portion of the Catholic Faith. "The rule of faith," he says, "is
altogether one, alone firm and unalterable; the rule, that
is, of believing in One God Almighty, the Maker of the world;
and His Son Jesus Christ, born of the Virgin Mary, crucified
under Pontius Pilate."*

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* De Virg. Veland., 1. "Regula quidem fidei una omnino est, sola
immobilis et irreformabilis, credendi scilicet, in unicum Deum
Omnipotentem, mundi Conditorem; et