That day
Saturday, 24 February 2007
The verse
“In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.”Philippians 4:6 · 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.