Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 100

by Cyprian

100.  That the grace of God ought to be without price.

In the Acts of the Apostles: “Thy money be in perdition with thyself, because thou hast thought that the grace of God is possessed by money.”^[1] Also in the Gospel:  “Freely ye have received, freely give.”^[2] Also in the same place:  “Ye have made my Father’s house a house of merchandise; and ye have made the house of prayer a den of thieves.”^[3] Also in Isaiah: “Ye who thirst, go to the water, and as many as have not money: go, and buy, and drink without money.”^[4] Also in the Apocalypse: “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that thirsteth from the fountain of the water of life freely. He who shall overcome shall possess these things, and their inheritance; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.”^[5]

Footnotes

1. Acts viii. 20.
2. Matt. x. 8.
3. Matt. xxi. 13. The latter clause of this quotation is omitted by the Oxford editor.
4. Isa. lv. 1.
5. Rev. xxi. 6, 7.