Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 10

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian, The Treatises of Cyprian, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Book III
by Cyprian, translated by Robert Ernest Wallis
Part 10
157905Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian, The Treatises of Cyprian, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Book III — Part 10Robert Ernest WallisCyprian

10. That we must trust in God only, and in Him we must glory.

In Jeremiah: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the strong man glory in his strength, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understands and knows that I am the Lord, who do mercy, and judgment, and righteousness upon the earth, because in them is my pleasure, saith the Lord.”[1] Of the same thing in the fifty-fourth Psalm: “In the Lord have I hoped; I will not fear what man can do unto me.”[2] Also in the same place:  “To none but God alone is my soul subjected.”[3] Also in the cxviith Psalm: “I will not fear what man can do unto me; the Lord is my helper.”[4] Also in the same place:  “It is good to trust in the Lord rather than to trust in man; it is good to hope in the Lord rather than to hope in princes.”[5] Of this same thing in Daniel: “But Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, there is no need to answer thee concerning this word. For God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the furnace of burning fire; and He will deliver us from thine hand, O king. And if not, be it known unto thee that we serve not thy gods, and we adore not the golden image which thou hast set up.”[6] Likewise in Jeremiah:  “Cursed is the man who hath hope in man; and blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and his hope shall be in God.”[7]  Concerning this same thing in Deuteronomy: “Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.”[8]  Of this same thing to the Romans: “And they worshipped and served the creature, forsaking the Creator. Wherefore also God gave them up to ignominious passions.”[9] Of this thing also in John: “Greater is He who is in you than he who is in this world.”[10]


Footnotes[edit]

  1. Jer. ix. 23, 24.
  2. Ps. lvi. 11.
  3. Ps. lxii. 1.
  4. Ps. cxviii. 6.
  5. Ps. cxviii. 8.
  6. Dan. iii. 16–18.
  7. Jer. xvii. 5–7.
  8. Deut. vi. 13.
  9. Rom. i. 25, 26.
  10. 1 John iv. 4.