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The Treatises of Cyprian, Book 12c, Ch. 55 — Tolle Lege

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St. Cyprian

The Treatises of Cyprian

Book 12c › Chapter 55

That we must not please men, but God

In the fifty-second Psalm: “They that please men are confounded, because God has made them nothing.” Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians: “If I wished to please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”

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Source: The Treatises of Cyprian (New Advent)