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Cyprian
In Leviticus: “Thou shalt rise up before the face of the elder, and shall honour the person of the presbyter.”[4554]
In Ecclesiasticus, in Solomon: “He that cleaveth firewood shall be endangered by it if the iron shall fall off.”[4555] Also in Exodus: “In one house shall it be eaten: ye shall not cast forth the flesh abroad out of the house.”[4556] Also in the cxxxiid Psalm: “Behold how good and how pleasant a thing it is that brethren should dwell in unity!”[4557] Also in the Gospel according to Matthew: “He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.”[4558] Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: “But I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that ye be all joined together in the same mind and in the same opinion.”[4559] Also in the sixty-seventh Psalm: “God, who maketh men to dwell with one mind in a house.”[4560]
In the Gospel according to Matthew: “Be ye prudent as serpents, and simple as doves.”[4561] And again: “Ye are the salt of the earth. But if the salt have lost his savour, in what shall it be salted? It is good for nothing, but to be cast out abroad, and to be trodden under foot of men.”[4562]
In the first Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians: “That a man do not deceive his brother in a matter, because God is the avenger for all these.”[4563]
The apostle says: “The day of the Lord shall so come as a thief in the night. When they shall say, Peace and security, then on them shall come sudden destruction.”[4564] Also in the Acts of the Apostles: “No one can know the times or the seasons which the Father has placed in His own power.”[4565]
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