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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...

person or of age since He offers Himself as a Father to all to obtain celestial grace with balanced equality. (4) Inasmuch as you have said also that the foot of the infant in the first days after his birth is not clean, that each one of us shudders at the thought of kissing it, we do not think that this ought to be an impediment to the giving of heavenly grace. For it is written: ‘For the clean all things are clean.’7 Nor ought anyone of us to shudder at what God has deigned to make. For although
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