The Treatises of Cyprian

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

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Section 92

That every one is tempted so much as he is able to bear

In the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: “No temptation shall take you, except such is human. But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”