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The Life and Passion of Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr. By Pontius the Deacon

Pontius the Deacon

Section 10

About this work

Author: Pontius the Deacon

10. I omit many other matters,

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and

,

indeed

,

many

important

ones

,

which

the

necessity

of

a

limited

space

does

not

permit

to

be

detailed

in

more

lengthened

discourse

,

and

concerning

which

this

much

is

sufficient

to

have

been

said

.

But

if

the

Gentiles

could

have

heard

these

things

as

they

stood

before

the

rostrum

,

they

would

probably

at

once

have

believed

.

What

,

then

,

should

a

Christian

people

do

,

whose

very

name

proceeds

from

faith

?

Thus

the

ministrations

are

constantly

distributed

according

to

the

quality

of

the

men

and

their

degrees

.

Many

who

,

by

the

straitness

of

poverty

,

were

unable

to

manifest

the

kindness

of

wealth

,

manifested

more

than

wealth

,

making

up

by

their

own

labour

a

service

dearer

than

all

riches

.

And

under

such

a

teacher

,

who

would

not

press

forward

to

be

found

in

some

part

of

such

a

warfare

,

whereby

he

might

please

both

God

the

Father

,

and

Christ

the

Judge

,

and

for

the

present

so

excellent

a

priest

?

Thus

what

is

good

was

done

in

the

liberality

of

overflowing

works

to

all

men

,

not

to

those

only

who

are

of

the

household

of

faith

.

Something

more

was

done

than

is

recorded

of

the

incomparable

benevolence

of

Tobias

.

He

must

forgive

,

and

forgive

again

,

and

frequently

forgive

;

or

,

to

speak

more

truly

,

he

must

of

right

concede

that

,

although

very

much

might

be

done

before

Christ

,

yet

that

something

more

might

be

done

after

Christ

,

since

to

His

times

all

fulness

is

attributed

.

Tobias

collected

together

those

who

were

slain

by

the

king

and

cast

out

,

of

his

own

race

only

.