On Modesty
Tertullian's treatise on the tension between God's mercy and His justice regarding sin, establishing that different categories of sins require different conditions of repentance. He argues that mercy must not be indiscriminate.
23 Chapters
Table of Contents
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Chapter I. Modesty, the flower of manners
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Chapter II.--God Just as Well as Merciful; Accordingly, Mercy Must Not Be Indiscriminate.
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Chapter III.--An Objection Anticipated Before the Discussion Above Promised is Commenced.
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Chapter IV.--Adultery and Fornication Synonymous.
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Chapter V.--Of the Prohibition of Adultery in the Decalogue.
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Chapter VI.--Examples of Such Offences Under the Old Dispensation No Pattern for the Disciples of the New. But Even the Old Has Examples of Vengeance Upon Such Offences.
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Chapter VII.--Of the Parables of the Lost Ewe and the Lost Drachma.
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Chapter VIII.--Of the Prodigal Son.
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Chapter IX.--Certain General Principles of Parabolic Interpretation These Applied to the Parables Now Under Consideration, Especially to that of the Prodigal Son.
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Chapter X.--Repentance More Competent to Heathens Than to Christians.
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Chapter XI.--From Parables Tertullian Comes to Consider Definite Acts of the Lord.
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Chapter XII.--Of the Verdict of the Apostles, Assembled in Council, Upon the Subject of Adultery.
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Chapter XIII.--Of St. Paul, and the Person Whom He Urges the Corinthians to Forgive.
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Chapter XIV.--The Same Subject Continued.
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Chapter XV.--The Same Subject Continued.
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Chapter XVI.--General Consistency of the Apostle.
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Chapter XVII.--Consistency of the Apostle in His Other Epistles.
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Chapter XVIII.--Answer to a Psychical Objection.
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Chapter XIX.--Objections from the Revelation and the First Epistle of St. John Refuted.
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Chapter XX.--From Apostolic Teaching Tertullian Turns to that of Companions of the Apostles, and of the Law.
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Chapter XXI.--Of the Difference Between Discipline and Power, and of the Power of the Keys.
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Chapter XXII.--Of Martyrs, and Their Intercession on Behalf of Scandalous Offenders.
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Elucidations.