Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 112

by Cyprian

112. That those are more severely judged, who in this world have had more power.

In Solomon: “The hardest judgment shall be made on those who govern. For to a mean man mercy is granted; but the powerful shall suffer torments mightily.”^[1] Also in the second Psalm: “And now, ye kings, understand; be amended, ye who judge the earth.”^[2]

Footnotes

1. Wisd. vi. 6.
2. Ps. ii. 10.