Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 55

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Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V Vol. V, Cyprian, The Treatises of Cyprian, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Book III
by Cyprian, translated by Robert Ernest Wallis
Part 55
157950Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V Vol. V, Cyprian, The Treatises of Cyprian, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Book III — Part 55Robert Ernest WallisCyprian

55. That we must not please men, but God.

In the fifty-second Psalm: “They that please men are confounded, because God hath made them nothing.”[1] Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians: “If I wished to please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”[2]


Footnotes[edit]

  1. Ps. liii. 5.
  2. Gal. i. 10.