Ante-Nicene Christianity

Whatever came first is true. Truth is from the beginning.

Arabia

Arabia’s pagan females will be your judges. For they not only veil the head, but the face also. Tertullian (c. 207, W), 4.37.

Among . . . the Arabians, not only is she who commits adultery put to death, but also her upon whom even the suspicion of adultery has come. Bardesanes (c. 222, E), 8.731.

It is but as yesterday since the Romans took possession of Arabia. They abolished all the laws previously existing there—particularly the circumcision that they practiced. Bardesanes (c. 222, E), 8.733.

You laugh because in ancient times the Persians worshipped rivers; . . . and the Arabians, an unshaped stone. Arnobius (c. 305, E), 6.510.

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