A characteristic polemical sentence of Tertullian may well be added in this connection: We have everything in common, except our women; you have community only in that respect (see Hefele, Beitr??ge zur Kirchengesch. i. 16, T??bingen, 1864).Perhaps more plausible, though often discussed and denied in more recent times, is the charge of the Church Fathers Justin, Origen, Epiphanius, andJerome t