The Treatises of Cyprian

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

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Section 38

That the believer ought not to be punished for other offences, except for the name he bears

In the Epistle of Peter to them of Pontus: “Nor let any of you suffer as a thief, or a murderer, or as an evil-doer, or as a minder of other people’s business, but as a Christian.”