If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.
CyprianAs to what pertains to the case of infants: You [Fidus] said that they ought not to be baptized within the second or third day after their birth, that the old law of circumcision must be taken into consideration, and that you did not think that one should be baptized and sanctified within the eighth day after his birth. In our council it seemed to us far otherwise. No one agreed to the course which you thought should be taken. Rather, we all judge that the mercy and grace of God ought to be denied to no man born
CyprianHe [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength is willing to place in him.
CyprianThis supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.
CyprianTheir property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not now have an enemy and a thief within their own household...They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.
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