Tertullian Of Patience When, then, on being cursed, I smite how shall I be found to have followed the doctrine of the Lord, in which it has been delivered that "a man is defiled,[91] Tertullian On Fasting and that the Lord Himself in the Gospel has given a compendious answer to every kind of scrupulousness in regard to food; "that not by such things as are introduced into the mouth is a man defiled, but by such as are produced out of the mouth; "[13]