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On Jealousy and Envy

Cyprian of Carthage

Section 13

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Author: Cyprian of Carthage

13. Thus also the Apostle Paul, when he was urging

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the

merits

of

peace

and

charity

,

and

when

he

was

strongly

asserting

and

teaching

that

neither

faith

nor

alms

,

nor

even

the

passion

itself

of

the

confessor

and

the

martyr

,

would

avail

him

,

unless

he

kept

the

requirements

of

charity

entire

and

inviolate

,

added

,

and

said

:

“

Charity

is

magnanimous

,

charity

is

kind

,

charity

envieth

not

;

”

teaching

,

doubtless

,

and

showing

that

whoever

is

magnanimous

,

and

kind

,

and

averse

from

jealousy

and

rancour

,

such

a

one

can

maintain

charity

.

Moreover

,

in

another

place

,

when

he

was

advising

that

the

man

who

has

already

become

filled

with

the

Holy

Spirit

,

and

a

son

of

God

by

heavenly

birth

,

should

observe

nothing

but

spiritual

and

divine

things

,

he

lays

it

down

,

and

says

:

“

And

I

indeed

,

brethren

,

could

not

speak

unto

you

as

unto

spiritual

,

but

as

unto

carnal

,

even

as

unto

babes

in

Christ

.

I

have

fed

you

with

milk

,

not

with

meat

:

for

ye

were

not

able

hitherto

;

moreover

,

neither

now

are

ye

able

.

For

ye

are

yet

carnal

:

for

whereas

there

are

still

among

you

jealousy

,

and

contention

,

and

strifes

,

are

ye

not

carnal

,

and

walk

as

men

?

”

Notes

29
Or, according to ancient authority, “of confession and martyrdom.” [Note this clear conception of the root-principle of the true martyr, and compare Treatise xi. infra.]
30
1 Cor. xiii. 4.
31
Or, “I have given you milk to drink, not meat,” is read by some.
32
1 Cor. iii. 1–3.