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Cyprian
In Ecclesiasticus, in Solomon: “The talebearer and the double-tongued is accursed; for he will disturb many who have peace.”[4614]
In the same: “The Highest approveth not the gifts of the unrighteous.”[4615]
In Solomon: “The hardest judgment shall be made on those who govern. For to a mean man mercy is granted; but the powerful shall suffer torments mightily.”[4616] Also in the second Psalm: “And now, ye kings, understand; be amended, ye who judge the earth.”[4617]
In Solomon: “Be merciful to the orphans as a father, and as a husband to their mother; and thou shalt be the son of the Highest if thou shalt obey.”[4618] Also in Exodus: “Ye shall not afflict any widow and orphan. But if ye afflict them, and they cry out and call unto me, I will hear their cryings, and will be angry in mind against you; and I will destroy you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children orphans.”[4619] Also in Isaiah: “Judge for the fatherless, and justify the widow; and come let us reason, saith the Lord.”[4620] Also in Job: “I have preserved the poor man from the hand of the mighty, and I have helped the fatherless who had no helper: the mouth of the widow hath blessed me.”[4621] Also in the sixty-seventh Psalm: “The Father of the orphans, and the Judge of the widows.”[4622]
In the fifth Psalm: “But in the grave who will confess unto Thee?”[4623] Also in the twenty-ninth Psalm: “Shall the dust make confession to Thee?”[4624] Also elsewhere that confession is to be made: “I would rather have the repentance of the sinner than his death.”[4625] Also in Jeremiah: “Thus saith the Lord, Shall not he that falleth arise? or shall not he that is turned away be converted?”[4626]
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