Cyprian
3rd century · AD 258 · Early Fathers (before Nicaea) · 889 passages
Bishop and martyr who wrote on the unity of the church, prayer, and how Christians should endure persecution and plague.
In his own words on 2 Peter
- 2 Peter 2:11
Of this same thing in the Epistle of Peter: "As strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; but having a good conversation among the Gentiles, that while they detract from you as if from evildoers, yet, beholding your good works, they may magnify God."
Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews
- 2 Peter 2:16
Nor is it difficult for God to open the mouth of a man devoted to Himself, and to inspire constancy and confidence in speech to His confessor; since in the book of Numbers He made even a she-ass to speak against the prophet Balaam.
Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus
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