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On the Advantage of Patience

Cyprian of Carthage

Section 1

About this work

Author: Cyprian of Carthage

1. As I am about to speak, beloved brethren,

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of

patience

,

and

to

declare

its

advantages

and

benefits

,

from

what

point

should

I

rather

begin

than

this

,

that

I

see

that

even

at

this

time

,

for

your

audience

of

me

,

patience

is

needful

,

as

you

cannot

even

discharge

this

duty

of

hearing

and

learning

without

patience

?

For

wholesome

discourse

and

reasoning

are

then

effectually

learnt

,

if

what

is

said

be

patiently

heard

.

Nor

do

I

find

,

beloved

brethren

,

among

the

rest

of

the

ways

of

heavenly

discipline

wherein

the

path

of

our

hope

and

faith

is

directed

to

the

attainment

of

the

divine

rewards

,

anything

of

more

advantage

,

either

as

more

useful

for

life

or

more

helpful

to

glory

,

than

that

we

who

are

labouring

in

the

precepts

of

the

Lord

with

the

obedience

of

fear

and

devotion

,

should

especially

,

with

our

whole

watchfulness

,

be

careful

of

patience

.

Notes

2
[Hermas, vol. ii. 23, 49; also Tertullian, iii. 714, and elucidation, p. 717.]