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Werke Cyprian von Karthago (200-258) Ad Fortunatum (de exhortatione martyrii) Exhortation to Martyrdom, Addressed to Fortunatus
Preface.

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You have desired, beloved Fortunatus 1 that, since the burden of persecutions and afflictions is lying heavy upon us, and in the ending and completion of the world the hateful time of Antichrist is already beginning to draw near, 2 I would collect from the sacred Scriptures some exhortations for preparing and strengthening the minds of the brethren, whereby I might animate the soldiers of Christ for the heavenly and spiritual contest. I have been constrained to obey your so needful wish, so that as much as my limited powers, instructed by the aid of divine inspiration, are sufficient, some arms, as it were, and defences might be brought forth from the Lord's precepts for the brethren who are about to fight. For it is little to arouse God's people by the trumpet call of our voice, unless we confirm the faith of believers, and their valour dedicated and devoted to God, by the divine readings. 3


  1. [In the Council of Carthage, a.d. 256, a bishop of Tucca is so named.] ↩

  2. [Hippol., p. 242, supra.] ↩

  3. [Compare, On the Glory of Martyrdom, this volume, infra. This treatise seems a prescient admonition against the evils which soon after began to infect the Latin theology.] ↩

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