The Treatises of Cyprian

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

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Section 56

That we must not please men, but God

In the fifty-second Psalm: “They that please men are confounded, because God hath made them nothing.” Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians: “If I wished to please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”