Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I In the same way they oracularly declare, that one power having departed also from the Duodecad, has perished; and this was represented by the woman who lost the drachma,[213] Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics had lost one of her ten pieces of silver, and therefore she sought it;[135] Tertullian On Repentance What meaning for us have those themes of the Lord's parables? Is not the fact that a woman has lost a drachma, and seeks it and finds it, and invites her female friends to share her joy, an example of a restored sinner?[79] Tertullian On Modesty Similarly, the parable of the drachma,[85] Methodius Discourse IX. Tusiane For the mind being cleansed by laborious exercises from the distracting thoughts which darken it, quickly perceives the truth; as the widow in the Gospels[17]