Of Patience
For For a devotional reader wanting a short, humane first Tertullian; not for those looking for controversy or doctrine.
Length About 7,900 words, under an hour.
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- OTHER De Patientia (CCEL) PDTrans. S. Thelwall · 1885De Patientia in the same Ante-Nicene Fathers translation (volume 3, 1885) by S. Thelwall, hosted by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library with chapter-by-chapter navigation and downloadable as EPUB or PDF. Choose this over the single-page copies if you want to move around the text or take it offline.
- OTHER De Patientia (New Advent) PDTrans. S. Thelwall · 1885De Patientia in the Ante-Nicene Fathers translation (volume 3, 1885), translated by S. Thelwall, on New Advent as a single continuous page with the chapter divisions kept and the editors' notes gathered at the foot. No introduction and no apparatus — the plainest way to read it straight through. Short enough to read in one sitting.
- OTHER De Patientia (The Latin Library (Latin)) LatinDe Patientia in Tertullian's Latin, unaccompanied: no translation, no introduction and no notes — just the text, section-numbered, on one page at The Latin Library. For readers working with the original, or checking an English rendering against it.Much harder than the work: Original Latin, no translation — read alongside an English edition unless you have the language.