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On the Advantage of Patience

Cyprian of Carthage

Section 8

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Author: Cyprian of Carthage

8. And after all these things, He still receives

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His

murderers

,

if

they

will

be

converted

and

come

to

Him

;

and

with

a

saving

patience

,

He

who

is

benignant

to

preserve

,

closes

His

Church

to

none

.

Those

adversaries

,

those

blasphemers

,

those

who

were

always

enemies

to

His

name

,

if

they

repent

of

their

sin

,

if

they

acknowledge

the

crime

committed

,

He

receives

,

not

only

to

the

pardon

of

their

sin

,

but

to

the

reward

of

the

heavenly

kingdom

.

What

can

be

said

more

patient

,

what

more

merciful

?

Even

he

is

made

alive

by

Christ’s

blood

who

has

shed

Christ’s

blood

.

Such

and

so

great

is

the

patience

of

Christ

;

and

had

it

not

been

such

and

so

great

,

the

Church

would

never

have

possessed

Paul

as

an

apostle

.

Notes

18
Some editors insert “and patient.”
19
[1 Tim. i. 3. A striking suggestion, put in our author’s terse way.]