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CvPRiAN OF Carthage. A. D. 248. 39
TestiTiionies. In another Mork, ' Miiuliul'' of Avhich tlie
blessetl apostle Paul says in liis epistle [or in one of his
epistles] : " For nie to live is Christ, and to die is gain :" '
Philip, i. 21.
10. In the third book of Testimonies; ' In' the epistle of
Paul to the Colossians; " Continue in prayer, vvatchin"' in
the same:" ' Coloss. iv. 2. In another Mork: * Likewise''
the blessed apostle Paul, full of the Holy Ciiost, and sent to
call and convert the Gentiles, warns and teaches: " Beware,
lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit,
after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world,
and not after Christ: for in him dwelleth all the fulness of
the Godhead." ' Col. ii. 8.
11. In the books of Testimonies the' first and"^ second
epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians are expressly cited :
and in " other Avorks also passages of both these epistles are
cited by Cyprian as words of the apostle Paid.
12. ' For'' if the apostle Paul, writing- to Timothy, said,
" Let no man despise thy youth," how much more may it
be said to you by your col eagues, Let no man despise thy
age?' 1 Tim. iv. 12.
13. ' Therefore P the apostle Paul writes to Timothy, and
directs, " That a bishop should notstrive, but be gentle, and
apt to teach ;" ' 2 Tim. ii. 24.
14. In the books of Testimonies'! these two epistles are
quoted by Cyprian distinctly, as the first and second to
Timothy.
15. In the third book of Testimonies :
' To"^ Titus, [that
is, in the epistle of Titus, as appears from what there precedes,]
" A man that is an heretic, after the first and second
admonition, reject; knowing that such an one is subverted,
and sinneth, being condemned of himself." ' Tit. iii. 10, 11.
In a synodical epistle of Cyprian, and other bishops in
*" Cujus rei memor beatus apostolus Paul us in epistola sua ponit et dicit : Mihi
vivere Christus, et mori lucrum. De Mortal, p. 158. ' In epistola
Pauli ad Colossenses : Instate orationi, vigilantes in ea. Test. 1. iii. cap. 120.
^ Item beatus apostolus Paulus, plenus Spiritu Sancto, et vocandis forman-
disque gentibus missus, contestetur et instruat, dicens : videte ne quis vos depraedetur,
quia in ipso habitat omnis plenitudo divinitatis. De bono
Patient, p. 210. ' Test. 1. iii. cap. 88. " Test, 1. iii.
cap. 68. " De Mort. p. 164. Ep. 14. [al. 5.] p. 32.
° Nam si apostolus Paulus, ad Timotheum scribens, dixit : Juventutem tuani
nemo despiciat, &c. Ep. 3. [al. 6.5.] p. 6. p Cui rei prospiciens
beatus Paulus apostolus ad Timotheum scribit et monet, episcopum non litigiosum,
sed mitem et docibilem esse debere. Ep. 74. p. 215.
1 Testim. lib. iii. cap. 67. 76, 77. et passim. • Ad Titum
Haereticum hominem post unam aiit secundam, &c. Test. 1. iii. c. 78.
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