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 Ecclesiastes
- Ecclesiastes 12:7
We ask that the will of God may be done both in heaven and in earth, each of which things pertains to the fulfillment of our safety and salvation. For since we possess the body from the earth and the spirit from heaven, we ourselves are earth and heaven; and in both—that is, both in body and spirit—we pray that God's will may be done.
Treatise IV. On the Lord's Prayer 4:16
Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.