Clement of Alexandria:
“He who hopes for everlasting rest knows also that the entrance to it is toilsome and narrow. So let him who has once received the Gospel not turn back, like Lot’s wife, as is said – even in the very hour in which he has come to the knowledge of salvation. And let him not go back either to his former life . . . or to heresies.”
Cyprian:
“But self-control and modesty do not consist only in purity of the flesh, but also in seemliness and in modesty of dress and adornment.”
Cyprian:
“He who is freed owes obedience to his Deliverer.”