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The Treatises of Cyprian

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

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Section 103

That all good men ought willingly to hear rebuke

In Solomon, in the Proverbs: “He who reproveth a wicked man shall be hated by him. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.”

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