Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 79

by Cyprian

79.  That innocency asks with confidence, and obtains.

In the Epistle of John: “If our heart blame us not, we have confidence towards God; and whatever we ask, we shall receive from Him.”^[1] Also in the Gospel according to Matthew: “Blessed are they of a pure heart, for they shall see God.”^[2] Also in the twenty-third Psalm: “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? The innocent in hands and of a pure heart.”^[3]

Footnotes

1. 1 John ii. 21, 22.
2. Matt. v. 8.
3. Ps. xxiv. 3, 4.