That day
Friday, 6 July 2007
The verse
“I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.””John 16:33 · 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.