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The Treatises of Cyprian

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

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Section 98

That we must hasten to faith and to attainment

In Solomon, in Ecclesiasticus: “Delay not to be converted to God, and do not put off from day to day; for His anger cometh suddenly.”

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