Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 109

by Cyprian

109. That the sick are to be visited.^[1]

In Solomon, in Ecclesiasticus: “Be not slack to visit the sick man; for from these things thou shalt be strengthened in love.”^[2] Also in the Gospel: “I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.”^[3]

Footnotes

1. [Elucidation XII. See p. 528, supra.]
2. Ecclus. vii. 39.
3. Matt. xxv. 36.