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Saint Cyprian: Treatises is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume presents several treatises of St. Cyprian in translation. To Donatus (Ad Donatum) is a monologue written shortly after Cyprian’s baptism in 246 in which he extols his spiritual rebirth in the sacrament of baptism. Literary criticism has come to view this treatise as a model for St. Augustine’s Confessions. The Dress of Virgins (De habitu virginum) written in 249 is addressed to women...

not with me is against me, and who does not gather with me, scatters.’1 He who breaks the peace and concord of Christ acts against Christ; he who gathers somewhere outside the Church scatters the Church of Christ. The Lord says: ‘I and the Father are one.’2 And again of the Father and Son and the Holy Spirit it is written: ‘And these three are one.’3 Does anyone believe that this unity which comes from divine strength, which is closely connected with the divine sacraments, can be broken asunder in
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