The Treatises of Cyprian

In Jeremiah: “And I will give to you shepherds according to my own heart; and they shall feed the sheep, feeding them with discipline.” Also in Solomon, in the Proverbs: “My son neglect not the discipline of God, nor fail when rebuked by Him. For whom God loves, He rebukes.” Also in the second Psalm: “Keep discipline, lest perchance the Lord should be angry, and you perish from the right way, when His anger shall burn up quickly against you. Blessed are all they who trust in Him.” Also in the forty-ninth Psalm: “But to the sinner says God, For what do you set forth my judgments, and takest my covenant into your mouth? But you hate discipline, and have cast my words behind you.” Also in the Wisdom of Solomon: “He who casts away discipline is miserable.”]