Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 54

by Cyprian

54.  That no one is without filth and without sin.

In Job: “For who is pure from filth? Not one; even if his life be of one day on the earth.”^[1] Also in the fiftieth Psalm: “Behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins hath my mother conceived me.”^[2] Also in the Epistle of John: “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”^[3]

Footnotes

1. Job xiv. 4, 5.
2. Ps. li. 5.
3. 1 John i. 8.