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The Treatises of Cyprian

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

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Section 42

That we must not speak foolishly and offensively

In Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians: “Foolish speaking and scurrility, which are not fitting for the occasion, let them not be even named among you.”

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