The Treatises of Cyprian

St. Cyprian of Carthage · c. 249–258 AD

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Section 24

That the Gentiles rather than the Jews attain to the kingdom of heaven

In the Gospel the Lord says: “Many shall come from the east and from the west, and shall lie down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven; but the children of the kingdom shall go out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”