Publisher's Synopsis
De Fuga In Persecutione est liber Tertulliani, qui est scriptor Christianus et apologeticus. In hoc libro, Tertullianus tractat de fuga a persecutione, quae erat communi in tempore suo. Scribit de rationibus quibus Christiani fugiunt persecutionem, et de rationibus quibus non fugiunt. Tertullianus etiam describit quomodo Christiani debent se gerere in persecutione, et quomodo debent resistere temptationibus. Liber est scriptus in lingua Latina, et est una ex operibus Tertulliani quae adhuc existunt.It beseems us better to retain our position in submission to the will of God, than to flee at our own will. Rutilius, a saintly martyr, after having ofttimes fled from persecution from place to place, nay, having bought security from danger, as he thought, by money, was, notwithstanding the complete security he had, as he thought, provided for himself, at last unexpectedly seized, and being brought before the magistrate, was put to the torture and cruelly mangled, --a punishment, I believe, for his fleeing, --and thereafter he was consigned to the flames, and thus paid to the mercy of God the suffering which he had shunned. What else did the Lord mean to show us by this example, but that we ought not to flee from persecution because it avails us nothing if God disapproves?This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original wor
