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Cyprian was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant. He is recognized as a saint in the Western and Eastern churches.
“Habere non potest Deum patrem qui ecclesiam non habet matrem.”
“For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.”
“It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.”
“Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.”
“Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.”
“Humi iacent fessa laboribus viscera, sed poena non est cum Christo iacere. Squalent sine balneis membra situ et sorde deformia, sed spiritaliter intus abluitur quod foris carnaliter sordidatur.”
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