“We are philosophers – not in words – but in deeds. We do not speak great things; we live them.” – Cyprian

Cyprian:

“Although there can be no other baptism but one, [the heretics] think that they can baptize; although they forsake the fountain of life, they promise the grace of living and saving water. Men are not washed among them, but rather are made foul; nor are sins purged away, but are even accumulated. Such a nativity does not generate sons to God, but to the devil. By a falsehood they are born, and they do not receive the promises of truth. Begotten of perfidy, they lose the grace of faith. . . . These, doubtless, they imitate and follow, who, despising God’s tradition, seek after strange doctrines, and bring in teachings of human appointment, whom the Lord rebukes and reproves in His Gospel, saying, ‘You reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.'”

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