e/Apologeticus

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has gloss	eng: Apologeticus or Apologeticum is Tertullian's most famous work, consisting of apologetic and polemic; it was written in Carthage in the summer or autumn of 197 AD, during the reign of Septimius Severus. In this work Tertullian defends Christianity, demanding legal toleration and that Christians be treated as all other sects of the Roman Empire. It is in this treatise that one finds the phrase: "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church" (Apologeticus, Chapter 50).
lexicalization	eng: Apologeticus
instance of	(noun) Carthaginian theologian whose writing influenced early Christian theology (160-230) Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, Tertullian