Tertullian On Modesty But as the conquering power of things evil is on the increase-which is the characteristic of the last times[2] Tertullian On Fasting Grant that from the time of John the Paraclete had grown mute; we ourselves would have arisen as prophets to ourselves, for this cause chiefly: I say not now to bring down by our prayers God's anger, nor to obtain his protection or grace; but to secure by premunition the moral position of the "latest times; "[92] Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments As these things, then, are in the future, and as the ten toes of the image are equivalent to (so many) democracies,[68] Cyprian Treatise I On the Unity of the Church but they shall proceed no further, for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, even as theirs also was."[49]