Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 57
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57. That the believer is amended and reserved.
In the cxviith Psalm: “The Lord amending hath amended me, and hath not delivered me to death.”[1] Also in the eighty-eighth Psalm: “I will visit their transgressions with a rod, and their sins with scourges. But my mercy will I not scatter away from them.”[2] Also in Malachi: “And He shall sit melting and purifying, as it were, gold and silver; and He shall purify the sons of Levi.”[3] Also in the Gospel: “Thou shalt not go out thence until thou pay the uttermost farthing.”[4]