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After Tertullian, like Irenaeus and Justin Martyr, rightly interpreted the teaching of Ephesian 4:8, that is, God: “led captivity captive,” not by taking dead souls in Hades to heaven, but by setting men free from the bondage and slavery of sin, by giving them the Holy Spirit, he then wrote: Now [this] was absolutely fulfilled that promise of the Spirit, which was given by the word of Joel. Since, then, the Creator promised the gift of His Spirit in the latter days; and since Christ has in these last days appeared as the dispenser of spiritual gifts, it evidently follows in connection with this prediction of the last days, that this gift of the Spirit belongs to Him [Jesus], who is the Christ of the predictors [meaning the prophets]. Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his God, some prophets, such as have not spoken by human sense, but with the Spirit of God, such as have both predicted things to come, and have made manifest the secrets of the heart; let him produce a psalm, a vision, a prayer — only let it be by the Spirit. Even though Tertullian defended the gifts of the Spirit, there is no mention that he ever spoke in tongues or was used in any of the gifts of the Spirit. Here again, Tertullian already introduced a Pagan concept in Godhead and modified Justin's baptismal from trinity with a Jesus still in it, to only trinity. He was not led by God in doing this. How can one expect more of the spirit of God by disregarding the light already given. It cannot be given anymore to those who are willingly ignorant or those who are blantantly disregarding the word of God.