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 Tobit
- Tobit 14:9
Be to your children such a father as was Tobias. Give useful and salutary precepts to your pledges such as he gave to his son; command your children as he too commanded saying, "And now, sons, I command you, serve God in truth, and do before God what pleases him; and command your children that they do justice and almsdeeds and that they be mindful of God and bless God's name on every occasion."
Treatise VIII. On Works and Alms 20
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.