Tertullian On Prayer is a grace of God, and you have received it, "why do you boast," saith he, "as if you have not received it? "[149] Tertullian On the Veiling of Virgins And if it is by God that the virtue of continence is conferred, "why gloriest thou, as if thou have not received? "[49] Tertullian On Modesty to differ? What, moreover, hast thou which thou hast not received? Why gloriest thou as if thou have not received? "[146] Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: "For what hast thou that thou hast not received? But if thou hast received it, why boastest thou, as if thou hadst not received it? "[388]