ACC ~ Mark 2 v22

THE NEW CONDITIONS OF GRACE

TERTULLIAN: He has prescribed for his new disciples of the New Testament a new form of prayer. For this it was fitting that new wine be stored in new wine skins and that a new patch be sewed upon a new garment. [1] What had prevailed in days gone by was either abolished, like circumcision, or completed, like the rest of the law, or fulfilled, like the prophecies, or brought to its perfection, like faith itself. Everything has been changed from carnal to spiritual by the new grace of God which, with the coming of the gospel, has wiped out the old era completely. ON PRAYER 1. [2]

[1] Mt 9:16-17; Mk 2:21-22; Lk 5:36-38.

[2] Cetedoc 0007, 1.2; FC 40:157-58*.