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Name: Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian, The Epistles of Cyprian — Part 7
Author: Cyprian

Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian… (1885)

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“Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian, The Epistles of Cyprian — Part 7”, published in 1885, is a work by Cyprian. It explores elements such as commandments, prayer and stripes.

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Cyprian, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian… (1885)

“ Therefore, while an inflated and immodest boastfulness about their own confession excessively elates some, tortures come upon them, and tortures without any cessation of the tormentor, without any end of condemnation, without any comfort of death,—tortures which do not easily let them pass to the crown, but wrench them on the rack until they cause them to abandon their faith, unless some one taken away by the divine compassion should depart in the very midst of the torments, gaining glory not by the cessation of his torture, but by the quickness of his death. ”

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Cyprian, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian… (1885)

“ Our Lord did the will of His Father, and we do not do the will of our Lord; eager about our patrimony and our gain, seeking to satisfy our pride, yielding ourselves wholly to emulation and to strife, careless of simplicity and faith, renouncing the world in words only, and not in deeds, every one of us pleasing himself, and displeasing all others, [2] —therefore we are smitten as we deserve, since it is written: “And that servant, which knoweth his master’s will, and has not obeyed his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.” ”

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Cyprian, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian… (1885)

“ Let each one of us pray God not for himself only, but for all the brethren, even as the Lord has taught us to pray, when He bids to each one, not private prayer, but enjoined them, when they prayed, to pray for all in common prayer and concordant supplication. ”

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Cyprian, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian… (1885)

“ Let us look not to things which are behind, whither the devil calls us back, but to things which are before, whither Christ calls us. Let us lift up our eyes to heaven, lest the earth with its delights and enticements deceive us. ”

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“ Let them know that we are proved by our Lord, and let them never fail of that faith whereby we have once believed in Him, under the conflict of this present affliction. Let each one, acknowledging his own sins, even now put off the conversation of the old man. “For no man who looks back as he putteth his hand to the plough is fit for the kingdom of God.” ”

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Cyprian, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian… (1885)

“ Let us only, without ceasing to ask, and with full faith that we shall receive, in simplicity and unanimity beseech the Lord, entreating not only with groaning but with tears, as it behoves those to entreat who are situated between the ruins of those who wail, and the remnants of those who fear ”

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Cyprian, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian… (1885)

“ We have an advocate and an intercessor for our sins, Jesus Christ the Lord and our God, if only we repent of our sins past, and confess and acknowledge our sins, whereby we now offend the Lord, and for the time to come engage to walk in His ways, and to fear His commandments. The Father corrects and protects us, if we still stand fast in the faith both in afflictions and perplexities, that is to say, cling closely to His Christ ”

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“ Let us ask that peace may be soon restored; that we may be quickly helped in our concealments and our dangers; that those things may be fulfilled which the Lord deigns to show to his servants,—the restoration of the Church, the security of our salvation ”

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Cyprian, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian… (1885)

“ For we must perceive and confess that the so disordered ruin arising from that affliction, which has in a great measure laid waste, and is even still laying waste, our flock, has visited us according to our sins, in that we do not keep the way of the Lord, nor observe the heavenly commandments given to us for our salvation. ”

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