Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 31

by Cyprian

31.  That he who does not believe is judged already.

In the Gospel according to John: “He that believeth not is already judged, because he hath not believed in the name of the only^[1] Son of God. And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light.”^[2] Of this also in the first Psalm: “Therefore the ungodly shall not rise up in judgment, nor sinners in the council of the righteous.”^[3]

Footnotes

1. Unice; but some read unigeniti, “only-begotten.”
2. John iii. 18, 19.
3. Ps. i. 5.