Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 96

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian, The Treatises of Cyprian, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Book III
by Cyprian, translated by Robert Ernest Wallis
Part 96
157991Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. V, Cyprian, The Treatises of Cyprian, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Book III — Part 96Robert Ernest WallisCyprian

96. That we must labour not with words, but with deeds.

In Solomon, in Ecclesiasticus: “Be not hasty in thy tongue, and in thy deeds useless and remiss.”[1] And Paul, in the first to the Corinthians: “The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.”[2] Also to the Romans:  “Not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.”[3] Also in the Gospel according to Matthew: “He who shall do and teach so, shall be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”[4] Also in the same place:  “Every one who heareth my words, and doeth them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon a rock. The rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one who heareth my words, and doeth them not, I will liken him to the foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. The rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and its ruin became great.”[5]


Footnotes[edit]

  1. Ecclus. iv. 29.
  2. 1 Cor. iv. 20.
  3. Rom. ii. 13.
  4. Matt. v. 19.
  5. Matt. vii. 24–27.