Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul Read the testimony of John: "That which we have seen, which we have heard, which we have looked upon with our eyes, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life."[131] Tertullian Against Praxeas But the very same apostles testify that they had both seen and "handled" Christ.[175] "That," says John, "which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life."[176] Tertullian Of Patience but what is that which, in a certain way, has been grasped by hand[15] Tertullian To His Wife Book I To God their beauty, to God their youth (is dedicated). With Him they live; with Him they converse; Him they "handle"[39] Five Books in Reply to Marcion From death recovered body,[182] Origen Against Celsus Book I and a sense of touch, by which John says that he "handled with his hands of the Word of life; "[81] Origen Against Celsus Book VII -no one is so foolish as not to see that the word "hands" is taken figuratively, as when John says, "Our hands have handled the Word of life."[81] Fragments of Caius nativity, His passion, His resurrection, His conversation with His disciples, and His twofold advent,-the first in the humiliation of rejection, which is now past, and the second in the glory of royal power, which is yet in the future. What marvel is it, then, that John brings forward these several things[31] Dionysius Extant Fragments Part I " The evangelist, on the other hand, has not prefixed his name even to the catholic epistle; but without any circumlocution, he has commenced at once with the mystery of the divine revelation itself in these terms: "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes."[17]