That day
Tuesday, 11 April 2006
The verse
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.”Jeremiah 29:11 · WEB
From the tradition
“The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.”
Tertullian of Carthage · Apology, Chapter 50
In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. S. Thelwall, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, rev. A. Cleveland Coxe (1885)), checked against the source edition.