Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians Now I write these things unto you, not that I know there are any such persons among you; nay, indeed I hope that God will never permit any such report to reach my ears, He "who spared not His Son for the sake of His holy Church."[51] Tertullian Against Praxeas This verity the apostle also perceived, when he writes to this effect: "If the Father spa. red not His own Son."[421] Tertullian Scorpiace The apostle also knows what kind of God he has ascribed to us, when he writes: "If God spared not His own Son, but gave Him up for us, how did He not with Him also give us all things? "[47] Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione Why, in this very standing of yours there was a fleeing from persecution, in the release from persecution which you bought; but that you should ransom with money a man whom Christ has ransomed with His blood, how unworthy is it of God and His ways of acting, who spared not His own Son for you, that He might be made a curse for us, because cursed is he that hangeth on a tree,[47] A Letter from Origen to Africanus whom, although His Son, God who is love spared not, but gave Him up for us all, that with Him He might freely give us all things?[5] Origen Against Celsus Book VIII The Father of Jesus is therefore a tender and loving Father, though "He spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up" as His lamb "for us all,"[96] Alexander Epistles on the Arian Heresy Paul has declared, who thus speaks of God: "Who spared not His own Son, but for us," who were not His natural sons, "delivered Him up."[20] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII For some one will say that the Apostle, interpreting this, says with reference to God, "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all; "[61]