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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...

But the Chalice which inebriates is assuredly mixed with wine. For water cannot inebriate anyone. But thus the Chalice of the Lord inebriates as Noe drinking wine in Genesis also was inebriated. But because the inebriation of the Chalice and of the Blood of the Lord is not such as the inebriation coming from worldly wine, when the Holy Spirit says in the Psalms: ‘Your chalice which inebriates,’ he adds, ‘how excellent it is!’ because, actually, the Chalice of the Lord so inebriates that it makes
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