That day
Sunday, 15 October 2006
The verse
“but those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.”Isaiah 40:31 · 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.