That day
Tuesday, 12 September 2006
The verse
“Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,”1 Corinthians 13:4 · 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.