Tertullian To His Wife Book II and what kind of price? The blood of God.[29] Tertullian On Modesty and the Lord's `flock' is the people of the Church,[82] Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book IX , to furnish an account and refutation of those heresies that have sprung up in our own day, by which certain ignorant and presumptuous men have attempted to scatter abroad the Church, and have introduced the greatest confusion[3] Genuine Acts of Peter of Alexandria But why do I delay you longer, my very clear brethren, with the outpouring of my prolix discourse. It remains, that with the last words of the Apostle[17] Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II Let the bishop pray for the people, and say: "Save Thy people, O Lord, and bless Thine inheritance, which Thou hast obtained with the precious blood of Thy Christ, and hast called a royal priesthood, and an holy nation."[255] of God, esteem those laws more honourable than the necessities of this life, and pay a greater respect to them, and run together to the Church of the Lord, "which He has purchased with the blood of Christ, the beloved, the first-born of every creature."[271]