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Saint Cyprian: Letters (1–81) is unavailable, but you can change that!

St. Cyprian’s works fall naturally into two groups: treaties (sermons, libelli, tractus) and letters (epistulae). This volume features his letters, of which 81 have come down to us, written from c. 249 until his death in 258 AD. They give a penetrating insight into the affairs of the Church in Africa in the middle of the third century. They reveal problems of doctrine and of discipline which had...

must be considered, that you thought that he who was born should not be baptized and sanctified within eight days, we thought far otherwise in our council. For in this matter, no one agrees with what you thought ought to be done, but we all judge that the mercy and grace of God must be denied to no man born. For since the Lord in His Gospel says: ‘The Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save,’5 as far as we can, if it can be done, no soul must be lost. For what is lacking to him
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