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enemy rises up, as is, though an enemy Were Wanting, there could be peace for you even among the Very togas of peace. u complain that the enemy rises up, as is, even althoughexternat arms and dangere hom barbarians Were repressed, the weapons os domestic assauit from the calumnies and wrongs of poWersul citigens, mouid not be more semctous and moro harshly Wielded Within. You complain os barrenness and famine, as is drought mado a greater famine than rapacitnas is the fierconem os mant did not incre e more terriblysrom grasping at the increase of the year's produce, and tho accumulation of their price. You complain that theheaven is aliut up hom shomers, although in the fame Waytho barns Me shut up - earth. You complain that noW lessis produced, as u What had alaeady been produced Were givento the indigent. You reproach plagus and diserae, While byplague ilaeis and diseam the crimes os individuati are either detected or increased, While mercy is not manifestod to the weah, and avarice and rapine are Walting open-mouthed fortho dead. The samo men are timid in the duties of affection, but rash in quest os implous gains; shunning the deaths of the dying, and craving the spolis of the dead, so that it may appear as is the wretched ars probably forsa n in their sichness for this cause, stat they may not, by being cured, escape :for he who entere so eagerly upon the estate of the dying, beatlyJ destred the sicli man to peristi. 11. So great a terror os destruction cannot ovo the teaching of innocen ; and in the midst os a peopte ving With constant hau , nobody considera that he himself is mortal. Eve Where there is scattering, there is seleture, there istahing possession; no dissimulation about spolling, and nodelay.in As is it more ali lawful, as is it mere ali becoming, as is he who does not rob More suffering loss and wasting his oWn property, thus every one hastens to the rapine. Among thieves there is at any rate some modesty in their crimes. They love pathiess ravines and deserted solitudes ; and thoydo Wrong in such a Way, that stili the crime of the wrong- doera is velled by daaness and ni t. Avarice fon the con-
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victims and the piles of catile everWhere smohe in your temples, and God's altars are either no hero or aro hidden. Crocodiles, and apes, and stones, and serpents are Worshipped
endurance of Our sufferings, and with a simple and s it exhaustion es pat . Gu set on foot tedious tortures, is Maring our bodies ; you multiply numerous punishmendi, bylacerating our vitais; nor can your brutallty and fiercen essbo content With ordinary tortures our ingenious crueity
13. What is this insatiabio madness for bloodstedding, what this interminabie lust os crueity Rather mahe yo election os one of two alternativos. To bo a Christian iselther a crime, or it is not. Is it be a crime, vis do you notput tho man that confessos it to death Τ Is it be not a crime, Why do you persecute an innocent man For I ought to bo
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434-E TREA TISES OF CYPRIAM a stight ining Which Du blamed in me besore, that whlehyou ought rather to hais and punish has increas , statis declaring myseis a Christian in a frequented place, and with the Mose standing amund, I am conlaunding both Du
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ihem Whom their fingere made; and the mean man hath
quichen and restore us. Cease to huri tho servandi os Godand of Christ With your persecutions, since When they are injured the divino vengeance degenti them.
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17. For this reason it is that nono of us, When he is apprehended, mines resistance, nor avenges himself against yourunrighimus Violence, although our peopte are numerous and plenusui. Our certainty of a Vongeance to follo mahosus patient. The innocent ove place in the milty; theharmi s acquiesce in punishments and tortures, sum and confident that Whati Ver Wo suffer mill not remain un-avonged, and that in proportion to the greatness of the injustice of our persecution so mill be the justico and tho
severi of the Vengeance exacted for those persecutions. Nordoes the wichedness of tho implous ever riso up against thename me bear, Without immediate Vengemee from above attending it. To say nothing of the memories of ancient times, and not in recur With Wordy commemoration to frequently r Maled Vengeance on bellias of God's Worshippers, the instanco os a recent matter is sufficient to prove that our defence, so
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has departed hence, there rem ains for him only punishment addod to sorro . But they have no suffering hom the assavitos present eviis Who have confidence in future good things.
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salvation.' λ He says that tho man os God and the worshipperos God, depending on the truth of his hope, and Dunded onthe steds iness of his faith, is not moved by the attacta of this morid and this liso. Although tho vino fhould fati, and the olive deceive, and the field parched mith gram hingwith drought should wither, What is this to Christians What to God's servants Whom paradiso is inviting, Whom allthe grace and est the abundance of the klagdom of heaven is matting fori They HWays exuit in the Lord, and rejoico and are glad in their God; and the eviis and adversities os tho morid they bravely suffer, beeauso they are ioohingtomard to gilis and prosperities to comer for me Whohave put off our earthly birili, and am noW created and regeneraled by the Spirit, and no longor live to the woridbut in God, shali not receive Gossis gista and promises untii
21. Let no one, hoWever, flatter himself, because there is for the present to us and to the profane, to God's Worshi' pers and in Gossis opponendi, by reason of the equali of the flesti and boh, a common condition Os -Hdly troubles,
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consumed; that is, aliens hom tho divino race, and this profane, those Who are not spiritualty neW-born, nor madeehildren os God. For that those only can escape Who have
What this mark is, and in What part of the body it is placeri God sola forth in another place, saying, Go through themidst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men stat sto and that cry for est tho abominations thatho dono in the midst thereos.' ' And that the sim pertainsto the passion and blood of Christ, and that whoevor is found
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shali escape. 23. Look, threefore, while there is time, to tho true andeternat salvation; and since noW the end of the worid is at