Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione does not bid us hide away out of sight as sons of darkness. He commands us to stand stedfast,[38] The First Epistle of Pope Fabian We exhort you also, according to the word of the apostle, to be "stedfast and immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not vain in the Lord."[2]