Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I For the law is the training of refractory children. "Having feasted to the full," accordingly, it is said, "they rose up to play; "[258] Tertullian On Idolatry which consecrated for itself the likeness of a calf, and not of a man, fell short of incurring the guilt of idolatry.[16] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews And when the gold out of the necklaces of the women and the rings of the men had been wholly smelted by fire, and there had come forth a calf-like head, to this figment Israel with one consent (abandoning God) gave honour, saying, "These are the gods who brought us from the land of Egypt."[11] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Will his antagonist make me better disposed to him? Should I now commit the same sins as the people, shall I have to suffer the same penalties, or not?[333] Tertullian On Fasting y whereby things divine are, handled; whether (it be not) with a mind much more vigorous, with a heart much more alive, than when that whole habitation of our interior man, stuffed with meats, inundated with wines, fermenting for the purpose of excremental secretion, is already being turned into a premeditatory of privies, (a premeditatory) where, plainly, nothing is so proximately supersequent as the savouring of lasciviousness. "The people did eat and drink, and they arose to play."[32]