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Step into the timeless teachings of Jesus with "The Sermon on the Mount: The Beatitudes - Illustrated Stories for Kids." This beautifully crafted book takes young listeners on a journey through the profound and uplifting lessons found in the Sermon on the Mount, bringing to life each beatitude with vivid storytelling and captivating illustrations. From the humble cottages of Galilee to the bustling marketplaces of ancient Jerusalem, embark on a series of adventures that resonate with the heart and soul of Jesus' teachings.

The doctrine of Hermogenes has this taint of novelty. He is, in short, a man living in the world at the present time; by his very nature a heretic, and turbulent withal, who mistakes loquacity for eloquence, and supposes impudence to be firmness, and judges it to be the duty of a good conscience to speak ill of individuals. Moreover, he despises God’s law in his painting, maintaining repeated marriages, alleges the law of God in defense of lust, and yet despises it in respect of his art. He falsifies by a twofold process—with his cautery and his pen.

Amythest is inflaming my raging appetite for a woman. But rules are rules. No touching. Imagine the utter shock that courses through my stimulated body when this goddess saunters into my conference room a few days later. My cocksure attitude spectacularly backfires in my enamored face as she rebuffs my advances.

Keep for God his own property untainted. he will crown it if he chooses. Nay, then, he does even choose. He calls us to it. To him who conquers, he says, “I will give a crown of life.” Be you, too, faithful unto death, and fight you, too, the good fight, whose crown the apostle feels so justly confident has been laid up for him.

This is a letter to Scapula, Proconsul of Africa, who had begun persecuting Christians, during AD 212 (an eclipse visible in Utica is referred to). Tertullian exhorts the Proconsul to remember the fate that befell other persecutors of the Church, not as a threat, but because Christians love those who persecute them, and do not wish to see the judgment of God be unleashed on even the most devout haters of the faith.