Cyprian

“ For I know that every one looks not now to the things that are of the world, but that he is hoping for a heavenly crown. Moreover, I said that perhaps you had forgotten to write to me. For if from the lowest place I may be called by you yours, or brother, if I should be worthy to hear myself named Celerinus; yet, when I also was in such a purple [2] confession, I remembered my oldest brethren, and I took notice of them in my letters, that their former love was still around me and mine. ”

“ You have desired to be sent into prison for His name’s sake, which now has come to pass; as it is written, “The Lord grant thee according to thine own heart;” [5] and now made a priest of God over them, and the same their minister has acknowledged it. [6] I ask, therefore my lord, and I entreat by our Lord Jesus Christ, that you will refer the case to the rest of your colleagues, your brethren, my lords, and ask from them, that whichever of you is first crowned, should remit such a great sin to those our sisters, Numeria and Candida. ”

“ And for her deeds I in this day of paschal rejoicing, [3] weeping day and night, have spent the days in tears, in sackcloth, and ashes, and I am still spending them so to this day, until [4] the aid of our Lord Jesus Christ, and affection manifested through you, or through those my lords who have been crowned, from whom you are about to ask it, shall come to the help of so terrible a shipwreck. ”