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Five Occasional Sermons

Written 386 to 399; the place is not known. The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

His first sermon as a priest, and sermons on the New Year feast, against the circus and theatre, after an earthquake and on Christmas.

Homily · first written in Greek

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable

R. Pearse (ed.), tertullian.org Additional Fathers, notes; J. N. D. Kelly, Golden Mouth (1995) (first sermon 386; Against the Games and Theatres July 399)

Place written not known

Written in more than one place
More than one place: Antioch (386 to 397) and Constantinople (399).