It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

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It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

In the original Latin

Sed nec religionis est cogere religionem

Tertullian

Ad Scapulam · 217

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217 Early Christianity

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Tertullian. Ad Scapulam [To Scapula]. c. 217, ch. 2.

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