Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Et rursus: "Vae praegnantibus et lactantibus in illis diebus."[63] Tertullian To His Wife Book I most of all unsuitable, as being perilous to faith! For why did the Lord foretell a "woe to them that are with child, and them that give suck,"[56] Tertullian On Monogamy not reflecting that the "woe" (denounced) "on such as are with child, and are giving suck,"[110]