“See, they say, how they love one another”

See, they say, how they love one another

Tertullian · The Apology (Apologeticus) · ANF III, Apology, Chapter XXXIX

Tertullian is reporting what outsiders said of the Christians, and reporting it as an insult they meant to sting: he adds that the same people are "wroth with us, too, because we call each other brethren". The line is almost always quoted as praise, which reverses its speaker.