Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume V/Cyprian/The Treatises of Cyprian/Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews/Book III/Part 7

by Cyprian

7.  That we must not grieve the Holy Spirit, whom we have received.

Paul the apostle to the Ephesians:  “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed in the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and indignation, and clamour, and blasphemy, be taken away from you.”^[1]

Footnotes

1. Eph. iv. 30, 31. [For the sealing, see Acts xix. 6, Heb. vi. 2.]