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The Treatises of Cyprian

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

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Section 99

That the catechumen ought now no longer to sin

In the Epistle of Paul to the Romans: “Let us do evil until the good things come; whose condemnation is just.”

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