Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV These therefore will be they whom He forewarns above not to be afraid of being only killed; and this forewarning He offers, in order that He might subjoin a clause on the necessity of confessing Him: "Every one that denieth me before men shall be denied before God"[1146] Cyprian Epistle XXX so it is written, "Whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father and before His angels."[19]