Eastern Orthodox Saints in English
Eastern Orthodox Saints in English
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St. Cyprian of CarthageThree Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Book III Cyprian to his son Quirinus, greeting. Of your faith and devotion which you manifest to the Lord God, beloved son, you asked me to gather out for your instruction from the Holy Scriptures some heads bearing upon the religious teaching of our school;…
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St. Cyprian of CarthageThree Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Book II Heads 1. That Christ is the First-born, and that He is the Wisdom of God, by whom all things were made. 2. That Christ is the Wisdom of God; and about the sacrament of His incarnation, and passion, and cup, and altar, and…
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St. Cyprian of CarthageThree Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Book I Cyprian to his son Quirinus, greeting. It was necessary, my beloved son, that I should obey your spiritual desire, which asked with most urgent petition for those divine teachings wherewith the Lord has condescended to teach and instruct us by the Holy Scriptures,…
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St. Cyprian of CarthageExhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus Preface 1. You have desired, beloved Fortunatus that, since the burden of persecutions and afflictions is lying heavy upon us, and in the ending and completion of the world the hateful time of Antichrist is already beginning to draw near, I would collect from the sacred…
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St. Cyprian of CarthageOn Jealousy and Envy ARGUMENT.—after pointing out that jealousy or envy is a sin all the more heinous in proportion as its wickedness is hidden, and that its origin is to be traced to the devil, he gives illustrations of envy from the old testament, and gathers, by reference to special vices,…
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St. Cyprian of CarthageOn the Advantage of Patience ARGUMENT.—cyprian himself briefly sets forth the occasion of this treatise at the conclusion of his epistle to jubaianus as follows: “charity of spirit, the honour of our college, the bond of faith, and priestly concord, are maintained by us with patience and gentleness. for this reason, moreover,…
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St. Cyprian of CarthageOn Works and Alms ARGUMENT.—he powerfully exhorts to the manifestation of faith by works, and enforces the wisdom of offerings to the church and of bounty to the poor as the best investment of a christian’s estate. this he proves out of many scriptures. 1. Many and great, beloved brethren, are the…
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St. Cyprian of CarthageOn the Mortality ARGUMENT.—the deacon pontius in a few words unfolds the burthen of this treatise in his life of cyprian. first of all, having pointed out that afflictions of this kind had been foretold by christ, he tells them that the mortality or plague was not to be feared, in that…
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St. Cyprian of CarthageOn the Vanity of Idols showing that the idols are not gods, and that god is one, and that through christ salvation is given to believers ARGUMENT.—this heading embraces the three leading divisions of this treatise. the writer first of all shows that they in whose honour temples were founded, statues modelled,…
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St. Cyprian of CarthageAn Address to Demetrianus ARGUMENT.—cyprian, in reply to demetrianus the proconsul of africa, who contended that the wars, and famine, and pestilence with which the world was then plagued must be imputed to the christians because they did not worship the gods; fairly urges (having argued that all things are gradually deteriorating…