Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 107

by Cyprian

107. That we must not use detraction.

In Solomon, in the Proverbs: “Love not to detract, lest thou be taken away.”^[1] Also in the forty-ninth Psalm: “Thou sattest, and spakest against thy brother; and against the son of thy mother thou placedst a stumbling-block.”^[2] Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians:^[3]  “To speak ill of no man, nor to be litigious.”^[4]

Footnotes

1. Prov. xx. 13 (LXX.).
2. Ps. l. 20.
3. Oxford edition, “to Titus.”
4. Tit. iii. 2.