Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

It is the Creator, who once shut the door to the Gentiles, which was then knocked at by the Jews, that both rises and gives, if not now to man as a friend, yet not as a stranger, but, as He says, "because of his importunity."[1071]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV

and by "I say unto you though he will not riseand give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity, he will arise and give him asmany as he needeth."[209]

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