{"author":"Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)","date_end":1885,"date_label":"1885 (historical English edition; physical printing year uncertain)","date_start":1885,"edition_year":1885,"edition_year_basis":"Historical American ANF Volume III title leaf: Buffalo, The Christian Literature Publishing Company, 1885; Wikisource physical reprint identity not established","id":"ws-library-full-note:3edd290c96b8a1d788cb:cite_note-15","is_genuine_commentary_verified":false,"license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","public_import_allowed":true,"publication_location":"source-library","record_type":"editorial-footnote","references":[],"rights_approved":true,"section":"Chapter 4, editorial note cite_note-15","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_context":["To reckon up the good, of repentance, the subject-matter is copious, and therefore should be committed to great eloquence. Let us, however, in proportion to our narrow abilities, inculcate one point,—that what God enjoins is good and best. I hold it audacity to dispute about the “good” of a divine precept; for, indeed, it is not the fact that it is good which binds us to obey, but the fact that God has enjoined it. To exact the rendering of obedience the majesty of divine power has the prior right; the authority of Him who commands is prior to the utility of him who serves. “Is it good to repent, or no?” Why do you ponder? God enjoins; nay, He not merely enjoins, but likewise exhorts. He invites by (offering) reward—salvation, to wit; even by an oath, saying “I live,” He desires that credence may be given Him. Oh blessed we, for whose sake God swears! Oh most miserable, if we believe not the Lord even when He swears! What, therefore, God so highly commends, what He even (after human fashion) attests on oath, we are bound of course to approach, and to guard with the utmost seriousness; that, abiding permanently in (the faith of) the solemn pledge of divine grace, we may be able also to persevere in like manner in its fruit and its benefit."],"source_library_url":"/library/3edd290c96b8a1d788cb/#ws-library-full-note:3edd290c96b8a1d788cb:cite_note-15","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_III/Ethical/On_Repentance/IV#cite_note-15","translator":"Sydney Thelwall","verification":{"proof_file":"raw/review/heading-library-note-batch-0066/proof-records.jsonl","proof_file_sha256":"cb669cd6269f4ca0fcfd1dd5c0fe3a7556905d618ad7ad83700fbfdabbdb43ef","proof_record_id":"ws-library-full-note:3edd290c96b8a1d788cb:cite_note-15"},"verified":true,"work":"On Repentance","work_id":"tertullian-anf3-4b07872c7c8a97c1a52d"}